Senate Judiciary

Good afternoon, everybody. Senate Judiciary Committee will please come to order. Ms. Jensen, please start us off with the roll call. Senators Carson Daugherty. Here. Henriksen. Here. Pelton B. Present. Wallace. President Roberts? Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, everyone's present. We'll welcome Senator Pelton as a guest member of Judiciary for the day. There are three bills on our agenda this afternoon in this order. They are SB 176, HB 1276, followed by HB 1256. Apologies for the timing. Obviously, the committee is announced for 1:30, which makes certain assumptions about when floor work will conclude. Floor work ran significantly later than usual given that we're in the last full week of the session. So as it happens, I am co prime sponsoring the first two bills on the agenda. So Mr. Vice Chair will preside over those two parts of the hearing. In connection with that, I did want to announce some ground rules for how testimony on 176 will go given time pressures at the end of the session. We've invited both proponents and opponents to identify three panels of witnesses to speak to the various angles that they would like to have heard concerning the policy.…