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House Business and Labor adopts coordination amendments, removes SB 446 'deeming' clause, and concurs bills for floor transmittal
Summary
After lengthy hearings, the committee adopted coordination and conceptual amendments that align three prior‑authorization bills (SB 446, SB 447, SB 449) with earlier negotiated House language; members removed the contentious deeming clause from SB 446 in a conceptual vote and concurred each bill to move to the House floor. Other measures (kratom and PFAS resolution) generated debate and were amended or tabled.
Following public testimony and a recess, the House Business and Labor Committee reviewed a stack of conceptual and coordinating amendments to prevent statutory conflicts among the senator's bills and earlier House measures (chiefly HB 398 and HB 399).
Committee staff summarized coordination options for each bill and offered specific instructions that prioritize the negotiated House language where sections would otherwise conflict. On SB 446 the committee adopted a coordination amendment (amendment 446.2.02) and then, after debate, approved a conceptual roll-call motion to remove the bill's Section 3 (the automatic 'deeming' clause). The conceptual vote to delete Section 3 was recorded in the transcript (committee reported recorded counts for the conceptual vote in committee). Following those actions the committee concurred on SB 446, SB 447 and SB 449 — each as amended and coordinated with the House bills — and moved them to the floor for further consideration.
The committee also considered an amendment to SB 461 (kratom). Members debated whether that amendment changed the sponsor's intent; the amendment passed by roll call and the amended SB 461 was concurred and will go to the floor, with the sponsor able to pursue conference committee options. A joint resolution establishing an interim PFAS study (HJ 37) failed on a roll-call and was then moved to the table.
The committee's executive actions placed several bills on the floor calendar with coordination instructions to avoid duplicate or conflicting statutory language; staff were tasked with preparing engrossed texts and ensuring amendments met transmittal deadlines.
