Senate Judiciary advances several study bills, tables one measure

At the conclusion of hearings the committee moved into executive action and recorded the following outcomes:

- HJ23 (Montana Youth Court Act study): Senator Ricky moved to concur; the committee took a voice vote and the chair announced HJ23 was reported out of committee (proxies recorded).

- HJ32 (investigator training study): Senator Ricky moved to concur; the committee took a voice vote and the chair announced the motion passed and HJ32 was reported out of Senate Judiciary (proxies recorded).

- HJ45 (reentry and collateral-consequences study): The committee took a voice vote on a motion to concur and the chair announced the measure had passed out of committee (proxies recorded).

- SJ39 (study on specialty courts): The committee took a voice vote and the chair announced SJ39 passed out of committee.

- SJ43 (criminal-justice data warehouse study): Senator Ricky moved SJ43 do pass; the committee took a voice vote and the chair announced SJ43 passed out of committee.

- HB271 (executive privilege/public-records exemption): The committee held a roll-call vote that failed on the motion; the chair then moved and the committee tabled HB271 without objection.

- HB247 (code cleanup removing damages tied to an old dueling statute): Senators moved to untable HB247, voted to untable and then voted to concur on the bill; the clerk announced seven votes in favor and the bill was carried to the floor.

Recorded counts and proxies: Several voice votes were taken and the clerk recorded proxy votes in the transcript; roll-call details (where given) were recorded for HB271 and HB247 (the record shows HB247 concurrence passed with seven votes in favor).