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Senate Judiciary spent hours on a sprawling 197-page competency-to-proceed rewrite before advancing a slate of prison-population bills — clearing SB26-036, SB26-158 and SB26-159 over bipartisan and party-line objections — while a sponsor pulled his own justice-involved-veterans measure for lack of money.
Key Actions
·Prison Population Management MeasuresPassed
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Notable Quotes
“I actually don't want my kid to have the right to suffer and die on the streets because he can't get the care that he needs.”
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Votes
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (4)Lindsey Daugherty, Nick Hinrichsen, Katie Wallace, Mike Weissman
No (3)John Carson, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Dylan Roberts
Postponed indefinitely — bill killedAction
Yes (7)John Carson, Lindsey Daugherty, Nick Hinrichsen, Katie Wallace, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Dylan Roberts, Mike Weissman
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (5)Lindsey Daugherty, Nick Hinrichsen, Katie Wallace, Dylan Roberts, Mike Weissman
No (2)John Carson, Lynda Zamora Wilson
Referred to Committee of the WholeAction
Yes (4)Lindsey Daugherty, Nick Hinrichsen, Katie Wallace, Mike Weissman
No (3)John Carson, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Dylan Roberts
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Good afternoon, everyone. Senate Judiciary Committee will please come to order on Monday 13th April. Ms. Jensen, please start us off with a roll call. Senators Carson. Present. Doherty. Here. Henriksen. Here. Wallace. President Zamora Wilson. Present. Roberts. Used. Mr. Chair. Here. All right, quorum is present. I will start by just letting everyone know Vice Chair Roberts has a bill up in another committee. He'll be joining us shortly. Other members may have to pop in and out over the course of the afternoon to attend to other business. We will be hearing five bills today in this order. 149. I think that's why most folks are here. Followed by 36, 159, 158 and finally 96. So the sponsors are before us on 149. We'll invite them to make their opening comments in just a minute. But because we have a large number of witnesses signed up, we'll. I wanted to indicate some sort of order of operation. Ground rules here. We have 40 plus witnesses who want to speak to the committee on 149. So after opening comments and questions from the committee, if there are any, we'll dive into witnesses. I've been given a preferred order by…
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