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Committee clears measure to remove 70-year cap on age-protected employees
Summary
A House committee voted to advance a bill that removes a statutory age cap that limited workplace age protections to employees aged 40–70; the committee vote passed with a motion and second and no recorded objections.
A House committee advanced a bill to remove a 70-year cap from state workplace age-protection rules, clearing the measure in committee without recorded opposition.
Representative Kim Scofield, the bill sponsor, told the committee the proposal “removes the cap” that currently limits protected ages and “is just a change in the code.” She said the amendment would stop treating age 70 as a cutoff for statutory workplace protections.
The change, Scofield said, is narrow and limited to the statutory age cap. “That's all this bill does,” she said during her presentation. Committee members discussed that, even with the change, an employer could still lawfully terminate an employee for other reasons; the bill would only remove the explicit age cap from the code.
There was a motion to pass the bill, a second, and committee members responded “aye”; the sponsor was congratulated afterward. Committee leadership said a form for the rules is available in the sponsor’s office.
The committee did not record amendments or further procedural conditions on the floor during the discussion. The bill will proceed under the committee’s rules to the next steps in the legislative process.
