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Committee advances voter-safety and consumer-protection bills; HB 620 amended and placed on consent; HB 521 recommended ITL; HB 649 passed
Summary
During executive session the committee adopted an amendment and moved HB 620 to 'ought to pass as amended,' passed SB 622 to consent, recommended ITL on HB 521, and moved HB 649 to pass and placed it on consent. Several motions were adopted by roll call; the committee indicated future follow-up on SB 467.
After closing the SB 467 public hearing the committee moved into executive session and acted on several unrelated bills.
HB 620: The committee adopted amendment 20261229 (amending an automatic suspension for breath-test refusal from one year to nine months) and then moved the bill OTPA (ought to pass as amended). Members who spoke in favor cited public-safety concerns and refusal-rate data shared by law enforcement. The amendment and the OTPA motion were adopted and the bill was placed on the consent calendar.
SB 622: Committee members supported statutory changes to help law enforcement respond to elder-identity fraud. The committee voted to pass the bill and placed it on consent.
HB 521: Concerns were raised about the bill’s potential to allow law-enforcement access to private property without sufficient safeguards and about an unexplained population cutoff in the draft language. The committee voted ITL (inexpedient to legislate) on HB 521 at this time.
HB 649: The committee voted ought to pass on increased fines for distracted driving, citing public-safety rationales; the item was placed on consent with no amendment recorded.
The record contains roll-call discussion; the committee indicated there would be no objection to moving these items to consent where noted. The transcript did not record detailed fiscal estimates in the executive session for these bills.
