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Senate recalls, reconsiders and refuses to concur on House amendments to lobbyist-licensing bill
Summary
Senators recalled Senate Bill 147 from counsel, reconsidered actions, suspended rules to allow recall, and voted to refuse to concur with House amendments that would have excluded legislators and executive-branch members from harassment provisions; the Senate will ask the House to recede.
The Senate recalled Senate Bill 147 (lobbyist-licensing modifications) from legislative research and counsel after concerns that House amendments excluded members of the Legislature and the executive branch from harassment protections.
Senator Ibsen explained that after reviewing House changes "I feel like that was a mistake," arguing the protections went too far by exempting certain actors. The Senate suspended rules to allow recall, then voted to reconsider its prior actions on the measure. After debate, the Senate voted to "refuse to concur" with the House amendment and asked the House to recede. The motion to refuse to concur passed on the floor and the bill will proceed under the Senate's direction for further action.
The recall and refusal-to-concur sequence signals that the Senate intends to seek restoration of harassment protections as drafted in the Senate version and to press the House for agreement or conference-level resolution.
