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Senate State, Veterans, & Military Affairs

Tuesday, March 31, 2026·36m·▶ Watch / Listen

Statutory housekeeping dominated the Senate State Affairs Committee's Mar. 31 hearing, as the panel sent all 12 technical-fix bills — from a common-law-marriage restoration to a blue book modernization to an online-marketplace stolen-goods clarification — to the floor's consent calendar without a single dissenting vote.

Key Actions

·Technical Revision Online Marketplaces RequirementPassed

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Notable Quotes

Is it true that if you check into a motel with a woman and you put down Mr. And Mrs. She can then claim that it's a common law marriage and you're tied to her forever?

Tom SullivanSullivan's lighthearted question during the common-law-marriage restoration bill drew Catlin's admission he'd heard the same folk claim, a rare bit of levity in a hearing of technical cleanups.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Whole and with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
Referred to Committee of the Wholeand with a recommendation that it be placed on the consent calendarAction
Yes (5)Marc Catlin, William Lindstedt, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Tom Sullivan, Katie Wallace
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TranscriptPreview
An effort could. Let's hope it's not quite that much effort today. Today I'm bringing to you House Bill 261303. Senator Ball would. Would have been with me, but he had some other things that he needed to do today, so I'll be pinch hitting for him. So 261303 is the technical changes to the energy and car management statutes. What it does is it makes two revisions to energy and carbon management statutes. First, the bill amends the terminology used to describe an exam that welders working on oil and gas process lines are required to pass to obtain certification. The law requires the commission to adopt rules to require certification for welders in oil and gas. The rules require passing an exam. The current rule refers to an exam as the International code council exam F31, a standard for journeyman, mechanical or successor exams. The F31 exam is not applicable to welders. The bill changes the reference to instead refer to certain other exams that are applicable applicable to welders in the oil and gas industry. Second, in certain instances throughout the bill, oil and gas operations are changing to energy and carbon management operations to ensure uniformity
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