Senate Judiciary committee advances wide slate of bills; ghost‑gun cleanup measure fails

The Senate Committee on Judiciary met on 2026-02-02 and considered a packed decision-only agenda, approving most measures on a range of topics including campaign finance, firearms restrictions, housing exemptions and administrative timelines. One firearms-related cleanup bill did not pass.

Chair Rhodes told the committee it recommended passing SB 1032 with amendments to change a proposed short-notice certification requirement for business entities into a single election-cycle certification and to direct the campaign spending commission to adopt revised, constitutional standards if parts of the bill are struck down by final judgment. “We’ll replace the proposed subsection…to allow such an entity, if it intends to make contributions or expenditures within an election cycle, to certify that it did not and will not be a foreign corporation or foreign influenced business entity for the entire election cycle,” the…