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Chair opened the joint hearing of the Senate committees on Human Rights & Labor and Public Safety & Veterans, said the committees will consider Senate Bills 144 and 147 and announced tight time rules (10 minutes per panelist, with two-minute warnings).
Joint Senate committee hearing on May 21, 2021, examined two bills (Senate Bill 144 and Senate Bill 147) that would bar employment discrimination based on criminal records and set limits on employer and licensing-board use of criminal-history certificates. Witnesses from the Justice Department, Corrections, Labor, legal-aid and victim-advocacy groups debated legal, operational and victim-safety concerns and senators asked agencies to file supplemental memorials.
