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Committee amends House Bill 40, removes and reallocates proposed judgeships for business courts

3446464 · May 21, 2025
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Summary

The Senate Committee on Jurisprudence adopted a committee amendment to House Bill 40 that deletes two proposed judgeships and replaces them with a different single judgeship allocation, then reported the bill favorably to the full Senate.

The Committee on Jurisprudence voted to adopt a committee amendment to House Bill 40 and reported the amended committee substitute favorably to the full Senate.

The committee amendment, offered and explained by Senator Hughes, made “a couple of conforming changes at the request of the finance committee, to make sure that we are in line with what’s in the budget,” and deleted language in the substitute that would have created two new judgeships. Hughes moved that the amendment be rolled into a new committee…

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