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Legislative counsel presents Reviser's Bill (House Bill 2464) as technical, non‑substantive corrections
Summary
Legislative counsel told the Judiciary committee that House Bill 2464 is the reviser's bill for the long session, consisting of technical, non‑substantive corrections such as citation fixes, misspellings and alphabetizing definitions; counsel said items that could be substantive will not be changed in this bill.
Legislative counsel attorneys Kate Tosswell and Marisa James told the House Judiciary committee that House Bill 2464 is the Reviser's Bill for the 2025 long session and that it contains only technical, non‑substantive corrections to statutes.
Tosswell said the Reviser's Bill is presented in odd-year sessions to clean up typographical errors, incorrect citations, misnamed funds and similar drafting issues and that changes which could alter legislative intent are excluded or handled through other vehicles.
“My name is Kate Tosswell from the office of legislative counsel,” Tosswell said, describing the role of revisers bills and noting that the office compiles corrections across the intersession. Marisa James added that several changes are alphabetizing and reordering definitions rather than altering their substance.
Representative Lewis asked about a lengthy change spanning the bottom of page 26 to the top of page 27 and whether that rearrangement affected statutory meaning. James responded the edits in that passage were primarily alphabetization of definitions and not word changes; the draft includes explanatory notes at the end of each section that summarize the effect of revisions.
Tosswell and James said the Reviser's Bill alternates chambers between sessions and is presented only in the long (odd-year) regular session. They said the revisers office uses its editorial authority for some minor typographical fixes but brings an omnibus reviser's bill to the legislature for broader non‑substantive corrections.
The committee received the presentation, asked a question about one section and closed the public hearing on House Bill 2464 during the same session; no vote on the bill was recorded in the informational hearing.
