Senate advances H.849, a 455‑page technical corrections bill
Senators debated and advanced H.849, the Legislature’s annual technical corrections bill (described on the floor as 455 pages with about 480 sections) intended to fix typographical errors, outdated cross‑references and gendered language without making substantive policy changes.
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The Senate heard a detailed presentation on H.849, the annual technical corrections bill prepared by legislative counsel. The senator presenting the bill described it as a large, non‑substantive corrections package intended to tidy statutory text: correcting grammar and typographical errors, updating cross references to repealed or recodified laws, removing obsolete references (an example cited was vending machines selling tobacco, which have been prohibited since 1997), eliminating gendered pronouns, and clarifying ambiguous timing language in several sections.
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