Committee approves bill allowing codes to be kept in digital or book form

A legislative committee voted unanimously Oct. 27, 2025, to pass House Bill 484, which would allow official code records to be maintained in digital form or in conventional book form.

The bill’s sponsor said the measure is a narrow administrative change intended to permit electronic publication while preserving the option of printed code books. That, the sponsor said, would modernize recordkeeping without removing the option to use physical volumes.

The chairman presented the bill and described it as “just a very, very simple bill,” saying, “It allows for digital records instead of or we can still do it in book form, basically.” Secretary Perez presided over the meeting during the presentation. After a motion to pass and a second, the committee approved the bill by voice vote; the transcript records the measure as passing unanimously but does not record individual roll-call votes or counts.

The transcript records no further debate or amendments to House Bill 484. The bill’s text, as summarized in the committee discussion, focuses on the form of maintaining the codes rather than changes to the substantive content of the code.

The committee did not specify next steps for the bill in the portion of the record reviewed; the transcript shows only the committee’s passage of the measure.