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Committee moves a slate of bills: estate, stolen-vehicle, metal-theft and autonomous-systems measures advance

Senate Judiciary Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee · February 20, 2026
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Summary

In addition to contested measures, the committee favorably recommended SB 265 (community property at death), HB 217 (stolen-vehicle amendments), HB 271 (metal-theft reporting) and SB 292 (autonomous-systems framework), mostly by unanimous votes.

The Senate Judiciary Committee handled several additional bills on Feb. 18 and advanced multiple measures to the Senate floor.

SB 265 (Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act amendments) was presented as a technical uniform-law bill addressing which property is treated as community property at death; the committee adopted a…

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