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Committee passes amended House Bill 17‑89 after compromise, with bar and prosecutors supportive

Senate Judiciary Committee - Senate · April 5, 2019
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The Senate Judiciary Committee passed an amended House Bill 17‑89, which sponsors say narrows earlier language and removes a contested section; attorneys who opposed the original draft told the committee they now support the amended measure.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday passed an amended version of House Bill 17‑89 after members said they reached a compromise that removed a previously contested section.

Centric Flowers, who ran the bill in committee, said the version before the panel was the engrossed amendment and that it removed section 3. She told colleagues attorneys who had testified in opposition earlier in the week were now…

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