House adopts amendment to remote-work measure for sales finance employees and passes the bill

The House agreed to an amendment to House Bill 1860 and then passed the bill as amended. The measure permits certain sales finance employees to work remotely; Representative Twardzik offered amendment A-01805 to modify mandatory language to permissive language.

Representative Twardzik introduced the amendment and summarized it briefly: "We're changing the word shall to may." He described it as a simple, agreed-upon change. Representative Salisbury, the bill's prime sponsor, described the amendment as agreed to and urged adoption. Representative Lawrence spoke in support, saying the amendment "makes the bill much better." The clerk recorded the amendment vote as ayes 203, nays 0; the amendment was agreed to and the bill was agreed to as amended.

The transcript includes only the summary read on the floor: "This bill permits certain sales finance employees to work remotely." The record does not include additional floor amendments or a recorded final passage tally for the bill itself in the excerpt; the clerk indicated the bill "agreed to" after the amendment.

Because the amendment changes mandatory to permissive language, its practical effect is to give discretion to the relevant authority (text of which was not fully read on the floor) rather than impose a compulsory requirement. The transcript does not identify implementing departments, effective dates or enforcement details.

Next steps: the reprinted bill (as amended) will proceed according to legislative process; the transcript did not specify transmission to the Senate or an effective date.