Senate Session - 2026-05-07 - 11:00AM

Senate · May 8, 2026

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Opening and procedural

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The presiding officer called the Senate to order, asked for announcements and opened the Orders of the Day.

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The Senate met to consider multiple bills including a controversial firearms measure to ban guns in establishments that serve alcohol, proposals regulating AI use in mental-health services, changes to alcohol licensing and distribution, and measures on chronic absenteeism; several bills were amended and ordered for third reading or passed in concurrence.

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