The Senate Committee on Judiciary on May 21 voted to refer House Bill 3,426 A without recommendation to the Senate Committee on Rules, placing the bill on standby in case related drone legislation in the House requires a Senate remedial bill.

Chair Kozonski said the motion was intended as a precaution because the committee has previously moved two related Senate bills through the committee and anticipated parallel action on two House bills currently in House Judiciary. "I anticipate them to move," the chair said, and moved HB 3,426 A to the Rules Committee so it would be available "in position of the Senate rules for the purpose of cleaning up whatever needs to be done" if something on the House side went awry.

Senator Thatcher made the formal motion: "I move House Bill 3,426 A without recommendation to the Senate Committee on Rules." The committee then proceeded to a roll call. Senators Robbins, Gilles and Manning were recorded voting aye; Senator McLean was recorded voting no; Senator Thatcher and Chair Kozonski were recorded as voting aye. The chair announced the motion carried and closed the HB 3,426 A work session.

Committee members described the step as routine and procedural; no substantive changes to the bill were discussed in the work session. The chair clarified the motion was not intended to advance the bill unless needed as a remedial vehicle tied to the other drone bills currently moving through the Legislature.

The committee then opened a work session on House Bill 3,865 A, the telephone-solicitation measure, and continued into that item.