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Conference Committee on HB26-1084

Wednesday, April 29, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

A House-Senate conference committee reconciled competing versions of HB26-1084, adopting a report on a 4-2 split that swaps a petition clause for a safety clause so the ballot-measure disclosure requirement can take effect for this year's Blue Book.

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·Voter Transparency in Ballot MeasuresNo vote

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My understanding is the Senate then changed that to strip out the ballot title language, leaving only the application in the blue book.

Cecelia EspenozaEspenoza frames the central House-Senate difference the conference committee was convened to resolve.

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Good morning. This is Representative Cecilia Espinosa. The first conference committee on House Bill 261084 will come to order as. I don't know if people have had a. Oh, yeah. If you can, Ms. King, please call the roll. Senators and Representatives Camacho here instead. Present. B. Present. Richardson Here. Weissman. Good morning, Madam Chair. Present. So we start with the differences between the House and the Senate versions of the bill. My understanding is, in the Senate, the House originally included in this bill that the information would be located in the ballot title. My understanding is the Senate then changed that to strip out the ballot title language, leaving only the application in the blue book. We are here to go beyond the scope of the two chambers and discuss some issues that have emerged since then. By stripping out the ballot title. It's the House's belief that we can. We should not. The question of whether we no longer need this petition clause and whether we should substitute that with a safety clause because under the original House version, I, as a primary sponsor, had acceded to putting in the petition clause because this was not going
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