Committee corrects conference report language on Senate Bill 4-64 to preserve attorney general claims under Deceptive Consumer Sales Act

Representative Teschka presented a revised conference committee report for Senate Bill 4-64 to the Rules Committee, saying the prior report inadvertently restricted the attorney general’s authority to bring consumer-protection claims under the state Deceptive Consumer Sales Act.

“The senate author informed me there was a complication with the language, that we inadvertently restricted the attorney general’s ability to bring a claim under the Deceptive Consumer Sales Act,” Representative Teschka told the committee. He said House and Senate legal teams worked together to rearrange the language and produce the corrected conference committee report; otherwise, he said, “substantively, this is all the same policy as what we did yesterday.”

Committee members noted bipartisan signatures on the conference report. Representative Slager moved the procedural suspension of House Rule 153.1 to permit the corrected conference committee report for Senate Bill 4-64 to be considered after April 15, 2025; the motion was seconded, a roll call was taken, and the motion was recorded as passing.

The committee’s action was procedural: the revised conference committee report corrects statutory citations and restores the attorney general’s enforcement authority under the Deceptive Consumer Sales Act as described by the sponsor. No floor enactment occurred at the Rules Committee meeting.

The sponsor said the change was technical and the corrected report had been vetted by House and Senate legal counsel before coming back to the committee.