Conference committee replaces HB143 with House AI language from HB263; conferees give unanimous consent

Representative Lynn offered amendment 202527881h, a replace‑all amendment to House Bill 143 that would remove the bill's existing sections and insert the artificial‑intelligence language from House Bill 263 as the bill's new text.

Lynn told the committee the replacement reflects the House‑passed version of HB263, with the exception of a floor amendment that had added tenant termination language to HB263; that tenant provision was not carried into the replace‑all amendment. "What this amendment does is it would eliminate all sections of HB143, except the section dealing with artificial intelligence, and it would replace that section with this amendment," Lynn said.

Senator Kennedy indicated the Senate side was "probably gonna be fine with that," while other conferees raised a single outstanding concern about meal funding in a separate bill. Representative Black and others explained the AI language was important to the other chamber and that adopting the House version would resolve the conference on that subject.

The committee clarified that the adopted text is the House version of HB263 (excluding the tenant termination floor amendment) and that the criminal penalty elements and the absence of a private right of action in the House text were key features. After a brief procedural exchange, conferees voted by unanimous consent to replace HB143's text with the offered amendment and returned the bill to both chambers for concurrence.

The transcript shows members also discussed an unrelated nutrition/meal‑program item during the same meeting; the AI replacement vote was taken separately and recorded as unanimous consent by the conferees present.

Representative Lynn and Senate conferees recorded the unanimous consent vote on the replace‑all amendment; the committee chair then directed staff to note the agreement in the official record and to return the amended bill for final action in each chamber.