House Judiciary

Wednesday, April 22, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

A busy House Judiciary docket saw the committee kill a data-privacy measure that had been rewritten into a ballot referral, advance a scaled-back arbitration overhaul over bipartisan objections, and send a first-of-its-kind immigration-enforcement accountability bill to Appropriations on a party-line vote after hours of wrenching testimony.

Key Actions

·Ban Government Purchase of Personal Data from Third PartyKilled

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Notable Quotes

“we're dealing with this in 2026 so that we don't end up in 1984. Right now we have a third party doctrine that was built around snail mail. You cannot escape having your life condensed into data. There is no opt out and citizens do not consider that data to be abandone.”
Ken DeGraaf — DeGraaf's framing captured the bipartisan privacy argument for the bill — that outdated legal doctrine leaves modern digital data unprotected from government purchase.

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Votes

Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction

Yes (6)Jarvis Caldwell, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza, Ava Flanell, Rebecca Keltie, Matt Soper

No (5)Jennifer Bacon, Lorena Garcia, Yara Zokaie, Michael Carter, Javier Mabrey

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (6)Jennifer Bacon, Chad Clifford, Lorena Garcia, Yara Zokaie, Javier Mabrey, Michael Carter

No (5)Jarvis Caldwell, Cecelia Espenoza, Ava Flanell, Rebecca Keltie, Matt Soper

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Yes (7)Jennifer Bacon, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza, Yara Zokaie, Javier Mabrey, Lorena Garcia, Michael Carter

No (4)Jarvis Caldwell, Ava Flanell, Matt Soper, Rebecca Keltie

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TranscriptPreview

The committee will come to order. Ms. Shipley, please fill the roll. Representatives Bacon. Here. Caldwell. Clifford. Here. Espinoza. Here. Linnell. Present. Garcia. Here. L.T. here. Zoper. Zokai. Here. Carter. Here. Excused. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, committee members, we have a little bit of an unusual day today. Two bills for action only. Hang on one second. This is. Okay, so we're going to hear two bills for action only, and then we're going to HEAR Senate Bill 5 after that, starting with where we left off, where we last left our heroes, Reps. DeGraff and AML Bacon. Whoever would like to begin. Amal Bacon. Thank you. And so. Thank you, members. Where we left off, we were in action only, and so we are now left at the amendment phase. Yesterday, you should have received two amendments. They are both strike belows. But today we are going to move. Sorry, hold on. We're going to move L9. And with that, I move L9. Okay, that's a proper motion. Seconded by Vice Chair Carter, who is now here. Amal Bacon. Okay, well, members, where we left off actually a couple of months ago, we've been able to start. We've…

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