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Senate Business and Labor committee advances seven bills, adopts amendments
Summary
On Feb. 24 the Senate Business and Labor Committee advanced a package of bills — including measures on service-animal guidance, HOA reinvestment fees, creditor-assignment law, professional licensure changes, building-code updates, dental-hygienist scope, and hospital workplace-violence reporting — and postponed further action on a health-share disclosure bill for amendment.
The Senate Business and Labor Standing Committee met Feb. 24 and favorably recommended several bills to the full Senate, adopting one amendment and placing one bill on consent.
Representative Lisonbee opened the session by sponsoring House Bill 23, which would require the Division of Corporations and Commercial Code to publish Disability Law Center contact information and explanatory material about service animals and public-accommodation law. "We want to clarify the law for people and have a convenient place for them to look and see what the law actually is," Representative Lisonbee said. Nate Krippas of the Disability Law Center told the committee that "almost all" denials of service animals that his office handled were resolved once businesses received information on the law. The committee voted to favorably recommend HB 23 by unanimous voice vote.
Representative DeFe’s House Bill 306, a substitute on reinvestment-fee treatment for homeowners associations, was amended and advanced. The bill preserves a 0.5% cap for higher-amenity or master-plan HOAs, creates a…
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