House Judiciary

The committee will come to order. Ms. Shipley, please call the roll. Representatives Bacon. Excused. Clifford. Here. Espinoza. Here. Linnell. Garcia. Kelsey. Here. Sloth. Excused. Soper. Excused. Is it okay? Excused. Carter. Present. Mr. Chair. Here. Okay. In an attempt to make everybody happy, we have shuffled the bill order and I do just want to announce that before we get through this one, this one should go quickly, but we have 1288 and then we're going to. We're going to hear 1288, then we're going to hear 1329, then we're going to hear 1100, then 1312, then 1315. Let's start with 1288. Vice Chair Carter. Rep. Joseph. You want me to go? Yeah. Oh. Whoever would like to begin. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you. Members of the committee, it's a pleasure to be here to present present House Bill 1288 before the committee. Today we are presenting a strike below in the original bill. It focuses on improving jury selection around voir dire to make trials fairer, more efficient and better at identifying biases before a case began. Key things the bill does or would have done since we have a strike below requires…