Senate Judiciary
Senate Judiciary advanced all three bills before it Wednesday, but the emotional and partisan weight fell on HB26-1134, a municipal-court overhaul that drew wrenching testimony about jailing the homeless in Montrose and split the panel along party lines. A uniform mortgage-modification bill sailed through to the consent calendar, while a bill extending child-actor protections to social media 'kidfluencers' cleared over a lone dissent.
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“In Montrose, the unhoused are hunted with drones. They are jailed and released, often with only the clothes on their backs, their belongings having been confiscated, their dogs having been impounded.”
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Sign in to subscribeOkay. Okay. Good afternoon. Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order. Today is Wednesday, March 25th. Ms. Jensen, please call the roll. Senators Carson. President Dougherty. Here. Henriksen. Here. Wallace. Present. Zamora Wilson. Present. Robert. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, everyone is present. We'll begin by noting a few logistics. We have three bills on our agenda. They are 1134, 1089 and 1058, all House bills. Also, Vice Chair Roberts had notified me he has a number of bills to present. I think three of the four bills in the Agriculture Committee. So if he is out of the room, that is why, given that I will be presenting the first bill, 1134, and given that Senator Roberts needs to pop right upstairs to present other bills in another committee, I'm going to ask Senator Wallace to preside over the first bill, first part of this hearing, and then we'll get going. Thank you, Mr. Chair. We'll give you a minute to get down. Senator Weissman, we would love to hear about 11:34, sir. All right, thank you, Madam Chair and committee. I want to start by noting that I am covering for my co prime, Senator Amabile, today.…
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