Rules committee advances a package of bills, including doxing, charter-school and vape measures

The Rules and Legislative Procedure committee met in its final session to consider conference reports and technical amendments and advanced every item called by unanimous roll calls.

Senator Becker told the committee that Senate Bill 140, described in floor discussion as a "doxing bill," was returned by the conference committee to the Senate text after the House added unrelated drone language and language about railroad‑fatality reporting that the sponsor said belongs in other bills. "It really just returns it back to the provisions that were in it when it left the Senate," Senator Becker said. The committee moved the report and recorded an 11–0 vote to advance the bill.

Senator Rogers presented the conference committee report for Senate Bill 239, which she said clarifies participating innovation network charter school provisions so an organizer may contract with a single governing body or with multiple ones, and prohibits a school corporation's governing body from both being the authorizer and simultaneously entering a participating innovation network charter agreement. Rogers said the change addresses a conflict of interest and that the…