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House State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs

Thursday, March 5, 2026·40m·▶ Watch / Listen

The House State, Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee spent the day on the Statutory Revision Committee's annual batch of technical cleanup bills — fixing dead citations, offset deadlines and outdated terminology — and referred all ten to the floor without a single dissenting vote.

Key Actions

·Technical Revision Online Marketplaces RequirementPassed

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Notable Quotes

all this bill does is restore the common law language that was accidentally deleted while maintaining the policy choice that was made by the legislature in Senate Bill 14.

Stephanie LuckThe repeal of the constitution's same-sex marriage requirements inadvertently deleted common-law marriage provisions; this bill restores them without reversing the underlying policy.

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Votes

Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Michael Carter, Cecelia Espenoza, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Stephanie Luck, Kenny Nguyen, Naquetta Ricks, Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Michael Carter, Cecelia Espenoza, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Stephanie Luck, Kenny Nguyen, Naquetta Ricks, Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (10)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Michael Carter, Cecelia Espenoza, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Stephanie Luck, Kenny Nguyen, Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford
Excused (1)Naquetta Ricks
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Michael Carter, Cecelia Espenoza, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Stephanie Luck, Kenny Nguyen, Naquetta Ricks, Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Michael Carter, Cecelia Espenoza, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Stephanie Luck, Kenny Nguyen, Naquetta Ricks, Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Michael Carter, Cecelia Espenoza, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Stephanie Luck, Kenny Nguyen, Naquetta Ricks, Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Michael Carter, Cecelia Espenoza, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Stephanie Luck, Kenny Nguyen, Naquetta Ricks, Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Michael Carter, Cecelia Espenoza, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Stephanie Luck, Kenny Nguyen, Naquetta Ricks, Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Michael Carter, Cecelia Espenoza, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Stephanie Luck, Kenny Nguyen, Naquetta Ricks, Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (11)Scott Bottoms, Brandi Bradley, Michael Carter, Cecelia Espenoza, Lisa Feret, Meg Froelich, Stephanie Luck, Kenny Nguyen, Naquetta Ricks, Chad Clifford, Jenny Willford
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The state Civic, Military and Veterans Affairs Committee will come to order. Ms. King, please not poll call. Please call the committee. Call the roll. Representatives Bottoms. Excused. Bradley. Here. Carter. Excused. He's here. He's standing. He's sitting right there. Espinosa. Oh, she might have thought that was Rep. Clifford over there. Sorry. Here. Hooray. Here. Frolick excused. Luck when present. Ricks excused. Clifford. Tare. Adam. Chair here. All right. We have a very full but calendar, but I think that we can knock these out pretty quickly here. So we'll get started with. We'll get started with House Bill 1217 with Representatives Espinoza and Bradley. Tell us about your bill. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Yes, we do. This bill corrects references in the child support guidelines. So we are all here today, representatives of the Statutory Revision Committee. The charge of the Statutory Revision Committee is to address inconsistencies and minor technical errors that are located by our great staff during the year. This one specifically identified where there were cross references as a result of statutory changes in the child support law. And so that is all that it is doing. And we would ask for
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