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Commerce & Economic Development committee focuses on workforce, housing and new S.16 bill

2148136 · January 24, 2025
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The House Commerce & Economic Development Committee heard a weekly intern report summarizing recent committee work on workforce strategy, housing, a new S.16 bill on infant changing stations, and a farm labor study that recommends prioritizing pay over collective-bargaining changes.

Helen Argraves, the legislative intern for the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee, delivered the committee's weekly report Friday, outlining recent meetings, a newly filed bill and demographic and labor data.

The report said the committee's time last week split roughly 50/50 between housing issues and workforce and development topics. Argraves noted one bill newly referred to the committee: S.16, “an act relating to infant changing stations in restrooms and public buildings and places of public accommodation,” which had its first reading Jan. 16 and lists Senator Clarkson among its sponsors.

Argraves summarized…

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