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Votes at a glance: Judiciary Committee approves concurrence amendment and a series of technical correction bills
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee recorded approval of a Senate concurrence amendment and multiple technical correction bills (Senate Bills 170–177 and others). Committee discussion was largely limited to sponsors' explanations and Code Revision Commission ratifications; all measures passed by voice vote in the transcript.
The House Judiciary Committee approved a Senate concurrence amendment and a package of largely technical correction bills on a series of voice votes.
Early in the meeting the committee concurred with the Senate amendment to a pending bill (amendment number 1). Representative Scott Richardson presented the amendment and said it brings the bill into alignment with a federal statute related to intellectual property and clarified liability for online platforms in light of 47 U.S.C. §230. The committee recorded "ayes" and the concurrence passed.
The committee then considered a sequence of Senate bills described in committee as technical or grammatical corrections, ratifications of Code Revision Commission decisions, or deletions of expired or obsolete language. Presenters and committee staff repeatedly described these measures as reconciling legislative text, correcting…
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