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Tuesday, April 7, 2026·4h 56m·▶ Watch / Listen

House Judiciary killed two high-profile measures — a scaled-back bid to impose a duty of care on online gaming platforms and a long-sought constitutional-carry bill — while a sweeping arbitration-reform bill drew hours of dueling testimony before being laid over for action.

Key Actions

·Protections for Youth on Social MediaKilled

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Notable Quotes

This amendment is another one that is painful to bring forward, but again, heard concerns that the bill is pretty broad and we are trying to bring it down to the required duty of care. So this strikes the data privacy requirements for minors. Hope it makes you all happy.

Yara ZokaieThe sponsor narrating the reluctant dismantling of her own bill through amendments in a bid to keep it viable.

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Votes

Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction
Yes (8)Jennifer Bacon, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza, Ava Flanell, Rebecca Keltie, Scott Slaugh, Matt Soper, Michael Carter
No (3)Lorena Garcia, Yara Zokaie, Javier Mabrey
Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction
Yes (7)Jennifer Bacon, Chad Clifford, Cecelia Espenoza, Lorena Garcia, Yara Zokaie, Michael Carter, Javier Mabrey
No (4)Ava Flanell, Rebecca Keltie, Scott Slaugh, Matt Soper
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TranscriptPreview
Ready. The committee will come to order. Ms. Shipley, please call the roll. Representatives Bacon. Clifford Espinosa. Present. Linnell. Excused. Garcia. Kelly Law. Here. Soer. Soer should be online. Okay. It's okay. Carter. Present. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, members, I don't think there's any way we're going to have more fun than we did the last time we met, but we'll try and let's start out with. Come on. I thought it was pretty funny. You're just kidding it. All right, we're going to start out with House Bill 1148 for action only. Yes. Rev's okay, I think. Explain where you're at with the bill and then. And then we'll provide an overview and then we'll move the amendments. Oh, I turned yours on. Should I start over? All right, we'll pick up where I was. Apologies. We have a lot of standards and protections around data and privacy for kids in the traditional social media space. We don't see that as much in the online gaming space, which has become social media for kids. And we went into detail about that when we heard this bill and when we heard testimony as just a very broad overview. This
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