Senate Judiciary

Monday, April 20, 2026·38m·▶ Watch / Listen

Senate Judiciary devoted an action-only session to a single measure — SB26-149, the mental-health competency overhaul the Minority Leader and Sen. Judy Amabile spent months negotiating — advancing it unanimously to Appropriations after adopting a stack of amendments led by a sprawling omnibus rewrite.

Key Actions

·Pathways for Individuals with Mental Health DisorderPassed

Notable Quotes

“we shrank the scope and that helped us with the fiscal note and made some people happy and made some people sad. And that's how we know we did a good job.”
Judy Amabile — Amabile's wry summary of the negotiation that trimmed the bill to fit the budget — capturing that no stakeholder got everything but a workable consensus held.

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Votes

Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction

Yes (7)John Carson, Lindsey Daugherty, Nick Hinrichsen, Katie Wallace, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Dylan Roberts, Mike Weissman

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TranscriptPreview

Good afternoon. The Senate Judiciary Committee will come to order on Monday 20th April. Ms. Jensen, please start us off with a roll call. Senators Carson? President Dougherty. Here. Ken Rickson. Here. Wallace. Present. Zamora Wilson. Present. Roberts. Here. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, everyone's present. We have just one bill on our age today. That is SB149, which is back before us in an action only posture. We had considerable witness testimony about this a week ago. I do want to note in the event that anyone was listening in or here for House Bill 1123 that will be heard Wednesday. We did change that from today to Wednesday, sometime on Friday, the official calendar updated accordingly. There were a few pages on the legislative website that for some unfortunate reason and did not update. So apologize for any confusion. But we are not hearing 1123 today. With that we have a little bill numbered 149 and just a few amendments. So committee, here's how we're going to proceed. We will invite the sponsors to make any comments about how we got from last week to today of a general nature and then to get into the details of…

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