Senate Judiciary

Monday, May 11, 2026·▶ Watch / Listen

Senate Judiciary moved three House bills to the floor after adjournment, but each drew a dissent — most sharply an antitrust update the Attorney General's office publicly warned could gut its ability to track confidential mergers, even as the sponsor and industry called it an agreed fix.

Key Actions

·Retail Theft Prevention ProgramPassed

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Notable Quotes

“this bill is currently drafted, is likely to eliminate our ability to learn about mergers and will also eliminate our will limit our ability to investigate them. It also implements statutory deadlines triggered by events we have no knowledge about and it puts our office in an untenable legal position that will expose us to unnecessary risk.”
Bryn Williams (First Assistant Attorney General, antitrust unit) · witness — The AGO's core objection to a bill its sponsor and industry backers had presented as a consensus technical fix.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (5)John Carson, Lindsey Daugherty, Nick Hinrichsen, Mike Weissman, Katie Wallace

No (1)Lynda Zamora Wilson

Excused (1)Dylan Roberts

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (5)Lindsey Daugherty, Nick Hinrichsen, Katie Wallace, Dylan Roberts, Mike Weissman

No (2)John Carson, Lynda Zamora Wilson

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction

Yes (4)Lindsey Daugherty, Nick Hinrichsen, Katie Wallace, Dylan Roberts

No (3)Mike Weissman, John Carson, Lynda Zamora Wilson

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TranscriptPreview

Good afternoon. The Senate Judiciary Committee will once more come to order on Monday 11th May. Ms. Jensen, please call the roll. Senators Carson. Present. Doherty. Here. Henriksen. Here. Wallace. Present. Zamora Wilson. Present. Roberts. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, everyone's presence. For the record, there are three bills on our agenda today. They are House Bill 1427 followed by House Bill 1426 followed by House Bill 1138. And we'll go in that order. Senator Snyder, thanks for being ready and before us. When you are situated to do so, please make any opening comments you'd like on 1427. Senator Snyder thank you Mr. Chair and thank you, Judiciary Committee. So this was a late bill. You know we passed the Pre Merger Notification Uniform act last year and we we heard about some concerns from mainly the CTIA and telecom industry, but we didn't really hear about that until after the fact. So the Uniform Law Commission, this is a bill that was introduced I believe in 2025 in California and they just passed it just a couple of months ago. But they ran it by the Uniform Law Commission to make sure that the changes they were…

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