FIFTY-SEVENTH LEGISLATURE

FIRST REGULAR SESSION, 2025

 

March 20, 2025

 

 

 

Mr. Speaker:

 

    Your JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, to whom has been referred

 

SENATE BILL 318, as amended

 

has had it under consideration and reports same with recommendation that it DO PASS, amended as follows:

 

     1. On page 4, line 16, before the semicolon, insert:

"; but does not include any person, business or other entity that only offers classified advertisements".

 

     2. On page 6, line 16, strike the first occurrence of "of" and insert in lieu thereof "or".

 

     3. On page 24, line 7, remove the brackets and the line through "No" and strike "Documentary" and insert in lieu thereof "documentary".

 

     4. On page 24, lines 12 through 19, remove the brackets and the line-through and strike the underscored language.

 

     5. On page 26, between lines 19 and 20, insert:

 

     "SECTION 12. SEVERABILITY.--If a provision of the act or rule or its application to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of the act or rule that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of the act or rule are severable."

 

                             Respectfully submitted,

 

 

                                                                 

Christine Chandler, Chair

 

 

Adopted     Not Adopted

           (Chief Clerk)                            (Chief Clerk)

 

Date

 

 

The roll call vote was 6 For 4 Against

Yes:Abeyta, Chandler, Hochman-Vigil, McQueen, Romero, A., Szczepanski

No:       Chavez, N., Hall II, Martinez, A., Reeb

Excused:  Martínez, J.

Absent:   None

 

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