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Committee debates narrowing of S.179 amendment after witnesses warn leased and municipal spaces may be swept in
Summary
A legislative committee reviewed an amendment to S.179 (Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interest Act) that adds the word "child" in one subsection and expands protections against civil arrests to certain buildings. Members and witnesses urged narrowing the draft language to avoid unintentionally covering leased or multiuse private property; legislative counsel warned the broader language could face legal challenges.
Chair convened the session to take up an amendment to S.179, the Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interest Act, and asked the member reporting the amendment to summarize proposed changes. The reporter said the technical change amends section 4015(c) by inserting the word "child" after "minor" to clarify how disclaimers apply when a minor child inherits property.
Why it matters: committee members then focused on a separate, larger set of changes that would limit a prior travel prohibition to court proceedings and educational institutions and add new protected-location language that could bar civil arrests "on the premises of a building controlled in whole or in part by the state or a political subdivision of the state" and would explicitly include public libraries as defined in statute. Members warned the phrase "political subdivision" and the "controlled in whole or part" formulation risk sweeping in leased, privately owned or multiuse spaces where government offices…
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