Judiciary committee places a package of bills on consent; several measures sent to the floor

The Judiciary Committee on April 8 moved a group of bills to the consent calendar and approved them to be reported out to the floor. Items placed on consent included measures on correctional fines, nonprofit insurance studies, breastfeeding for incarcerated mothers, data reporting, definitions of child sexual-abuse material, survivor benefits for correctional families, racial and ethnic impact statements, the Office of the Correction Ombuds, and several criminal-justice and traffic offenses.

The committee clerk read the consent calendar at the close of the session. The consent calendar items listed in committee remarks were: SB 1309 (JFS to the floor with LCO 6989); SB 1322 (JFS to the floor with amendment a); SB 1435 (JFS to the floor); SB 1436 (JFS to the floor with amendment a — later removed from consent and debated); SB 1439 (JFS to the floor with LCO 6984); SB 1443 (JFS to the floor); SB 1506 (JFS to the floor with LCO 6982); SB 1543 (JFS to the floor with LCO 7107 and amendment a); HB 7193 (JF to the floor); HB 7259 (JFS to the floor with LCO 7117 and amendment a); and HB 7260 (JFS to the floor with LCO 7133).

Committee members signaled no objection to placing those items on consent during the meeting; the clerk subsequently called the roll on the consent calendar and the set was reported to the floor as read. Several items were taken up for fuller debate earlier in the hearing and therefore did not remain on consent.

Votes at a glance: the consensus action taken in committee was to report the listed consent items to the floor; the clerk held the roll call and recorded the affirmative vote to send these measures forward.

Because many of the consent items had only short discussion or were amended by unanimous consent, this roundup lists the bills sent as a group rather than separate articles for each measure.