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Wednesday, March 18, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

House Judiciary moved four bills and shelved a fifth in a long day dominated by raw testimony — Evergreen High shooting survivors pressing a social-media warrant bill and formerly incarcerated witnesses describing being turned loose with no ID and $100 in 'gate money' unchanged since 1972. Two measures cleared over dissent; the sponsor of an online-gaming duty-of-care bill pulled it after a fight over whether its fee triggers a vote of the people.

Key Actions

·Access to Records of Child Abuse or NeglectPassed

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Notable Quotes

So what dollar amount to you weighs more than my life and the lives of my peers.

Evelyn Sievers · witnessA student's challenge to opponents who argued the 24-hour warrant and hotline mandates were too costly for platforms, crystallizing the survivor testimony driving the bill.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (10)Jennifer Bacon, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza, Ava Flanell, Lorena Garcia, Rebecca Keltie, Scott Slaugh, Matt Soper, Yara Zokaie, Javier Mabrey
Excused (1)Michael Carter
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Jennifer Bacon, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza, Lorena Garcia, Yara Zokaie, Michael Carter, Javier Mabrey
No (4)Ava Flanell, Rebecca Keltie, Scott Slaugh, Matt Soper
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (11)Ava Flanell, Lorena Garcia, Rebecca Keltie, Scott Slaugh, Matt Soper, Yara Zokaie, Michael Carter, Javier Mabrey, Jennifer Bacon, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (7)Chad Clifford, Jennifer Bacon, Cecelia Espenoza, Lorena Garcia, Yara Zokaie, Michael Carter, Javier Mabrey
No (4)Ava Flanell, Rebecca Keltie, Scott Slaugh, Matt Soper
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TranscriptPreview
Okay. Now the committee will come to order. Ms. Shipley, please call the roll. Representatives, come on. Representatives. Bacon. Excused. Clifford. Here. Espinosa. Here. Flinell. Here. Garcia. L.T. here. Slaw. Here. Soper. Excused. Zocai. Excused. Carter. Present. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, members, we have a full schedule today. We're going to hear five bills. I'll just note right now that we're going to flip the order of the last two bills so the 1255 will go last and 1148 will go second to last, starting with Senate Bill 14. Rep. Ryden, welcome to the House Judiciary Committee. You may begin. Thank you for having me here, Mr. Chair. And thank you, everybody, for, for hearing this bill today. This comes from the interim committee that met for the treatment of persons with behavioral health disorders in the criminal and juvenile justice system. There's no good acronym for that. It's just a really kind of big mouthful. But there was a subcommittee as part of that interim committee, and that subcommittee really focused on the not guilty by reason of insanity process. And so the folks in that subcommittee, and you'll hear from a few of them today, they are
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