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House Judiciary Committee recesses several bills, sends four measures to consent or interim study
Summary
During a House Judiciary Committee work session, lawmakers voted to send two bills to interim study or 'inexpedient to legislate' status and approved one Senate bill with one dissenting vote; multiple contentious measures were recessed for further consideration or assigned to subcommittees.
The House Judiciary Committee recessed discussion on several contentious measures and approved action on four items during a work session, committee members said.
Committee members voted to recommend ITL (inexpedient to legislate) for House Bill 74 (defining “citizen” for Right-to-Know law) and House Bill 253 (changes to interest-on-lawyers’ trust accounts, IOLTA). The committee also voted to interim-study House Bill 580 (retaliatory defamation in domestic-violence cases) and gave an “ought to pass” recommendation to Senate Bill 189 (fetal death records) after deliberation. Several other bills and proposed constitutional changes were recessed for later meetings or assigned to subcommittees for further work.
Why it matters: The committee’s decisions will shape which measures advance before the full House and which require more study or substantial revision. The actions affect public-records definitions, legal-administration of attorney trust funds,…
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