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Judiciary chair seeks wording change to hate-crimes bill; committee to vote after rewrite
Summary
Committee chair said the Judiciary Committee will ask legislative counsel to remove the word "particular" from H118 and expects to vote on the revised draft tomorrow after further review; members discussed but did not agree to expand protected categories.
Chair, Judiciary Committee, said the panel will ask legislative counsel to revise H118, the hate-crimes bill, to remove the word "particular" and bring a corrected draft for a vote tomorrow.
The change is intended to clear up confusing phrasing that members said could create unintended ambiguity about who is covered. Chair said the committee had previously debated whether the term added grammatical and legal problems and that removing it would better reflect the bill’s intent.
Members discussed whether to add new protected categories to the bill. Some…
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