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Sign in to subscribeGood 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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