Georgia CommonsComité Rules del Senado, 10 de febrero de 2026
2025-2026 Regular Session · 450 CAP · 15 min
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El comité escuchó presentaciones sobre SB 400, SB 405, SB 409, SB 444 y HB 244. Los miembros hicieron preguntas al patrocinador de HB 244 sobre qué gobiernos locales podrían acceder a una mayor flexibilidad en las auditorías, los requisitos de auditoría y las sanciones por incumplimiento. Luego, el comité aprobó por unanimidad la selección de SB 398, SB 400 y SB 444 para que avanzaran. No se mostró ninguna votación sobre los demás proyectos de ley enumerados.
Proyectos de ley tratados (6)
Cada relato abarca el tramo de la reunión que indica. El número del proyecto de ley se dice en ese tramo, salvo cuando era el único proyecto en la agenda de un comité.
SB 400. Education; unaccredited institutions from offering degrees; prohibit
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El patrocinador describió SB 400 como un proyecto de ley de una agencia relacionado con las instituciones educativas postsecundarias independientes no públicas, sin explicar otras disposiciones. No hubo preguntas de fondo después. Más tarde, un miembro del comité seleccionó el proyecto de ley para que avanzara, y el comité lo aprobó por unanimidad junto con otros dos proyectos de ley.
SB 405. Magistrate Court; the maximum amount of civil claims that can be tried in magistrate court; increase
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El presidente dijo que SB 405 aumentaría el límite de las demandas civiles en los tribunales de magistrados de $15,000 a $50,000. Cuando el patrocinador llegó más tarde, dijo que el límite más alto permitiría que las personas se representaran a sí mismas sin pagar a un abogado. No se hicieron preguntas de fondo y no se mostró ninguna votación sobre el proyecto de ley.
SB 409. "Insurers' Use of Aerial or Satellite Images Act"; enact
Desde 0:07:04 · turnos 32 a 39
El patrocinador dijo que SB 409 brindaría transparencia a los propietarios de viviendas cuando las aseguradoras usen imágenes aéreas para evaluar sus viviendas. El patrocinador explicó que una aseguradora que se niegue a renovar una póliza porque una imagen aérea muestra un techo que necesita reparación tendría que enviar al titular de la póliza una copia de esa imagen con la fecha marcada. No hubo preguntas de fondo ni votación después.
SB 444. Private Review Agents; certain decisions with regard to the provision of insurance coverage for healthcare services shall not be based solely on artificial intelligence systems; provide
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El patrocinador describió SB 444 como una medida de protección al paciente para garantizar la participación humana cuando se use inteligencia artificial en las decisiones de autorización previa. No hubo preguntas de fondo después. Más tarde, el patrocinador seleccionó el proyecto de ley para que avanzara, y el comité lo aprobó por unanimidad junto con otros dos proyectos de ley.
HB 244. State auditor; local governments to request and receive in certain circumstances due date extensions related to filing annual audits; provide
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El patrocinador dijo que HB 244 daría a los gobiernos locales que gasten menos de $2.5 million flexibilidad en los requisitos de auditoría anual, ayudándolos a cumplir los requisitos para recibir financiamiento y manteniendo la rendición de cuentas ante los contribuyentes. Cuando se le preguntó si las escuelas podrían acceder a esa flexibilidad, el patrocinador dijo que el proyecto de ley abarcaba ciudades y condados, no escuelas. Un miembro dijo que el sitio web estatal de auditorías mostraba que 14 sistemas escolares no habían presentado las auditorías de 2024 y seis no habían presentado las auditorías de 2023, y se opuso a dar más prórrogas a las escuelas. Otro miembro preguntó sobre las prórrogas y las sanciones, señalando que las ciudades más pequeñas pueden tener dificultades para encontrar a alguien que realice las auditorías. El patrocinador dijo que las ciudades pequeñas carecen del personal y del dinero para seguir los mismos procedimientos que usan las ciudades más grandes. El patrocinador dijo que el proyecto de ley exigiría una auditoría completa cada cinco años y permitiría que el auditor estableciera un marco para el cumplimiento. El patrocinador también dijo que algunas ciudades habían pasado nueve años sin una auditoría, un problema que este proyecto de ley no abordaba. Cuando se le preguntó sobre las sanciones, el patrocinador dijo que el incumplimiento impide que los gobiernos locales reciban ciertos fondos estatales y fondos federales distribuidos a través del estado. No se mostró ninguna votación sobre el proyecto de ley.
SB 398. Wiretapping, Eavesdropping, Surveillance, and Related Offenses; criminal offenses of virtual peeping; establish
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Un miembro del comité seleccionó SB 398 para que avanzara, y el presidente indicó que su tema era la interceptación de comunicaciones. No hubo una explicación de sus disposiciones ni un debate de fondo después. El comité aprobó por unanimidad la selección junto con otros dos proyectos de ley.
Transcripción
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Meeting to order. Senate rules, February 10th, 2026 in the year of our Lord. Senator Robertson, why don't you lead us in a word of prayer?
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If you'll bow your heads with me, please. Dear Heavenly Father, we come before you today, Lord God, as your humble servant, we ask that you open up our minds and our hearts, Lord God, as we move through the decisions that you've given us to make. We ask all these things, Lord God, in the name of your Son and our precious Savior, our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Amen. All right. We've got, uh, several bills for consideration, and, uh, some of y'all have presented before. You don't have to come back, but you're... M- I mean, I'm... You know, s- it's harder to keep saying no to you, so I applaud you for keep coming. So, Senator Harbin, you did cover this yesterday, um, but go ahead and-
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Real quick
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... just be quick and, and be gone with you, as my predecessor used to say.
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This bill saves no money. It simply is changing really four things. The compos... Uh, this is for the magistrate judges, changes the composite, uh, mix-up of their board, what is there. It raises their dues on their members. It changes early retirement to 55, but with a penalty of 3% per year. Uh, their normal retirement age was 60. And then it, uh, changes the multiplier that they've got. There is an actuarial, uh, physical note on it, and it does not affect the bill.
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All right. Any questions? No questions. Senator Hatchett, not with us.
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I don't even know this. Anybody that came out of Judy? Anybody on Judy wanna cover that? All right, moving on. Senate Bill 400, Senator Burns.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Listen, I wanna remind the committee of an old song by Engelbert Humperdinck. It's called Please Release Me, Let Me Go.
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Oh.
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Senate Bill 400's agency bill takes care of, uh, independent schools that are non-public-
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Oh, Rice Ed ain't here
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... post-secondary. Thank you.
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All right. Another musical reference. And he yelled it, too-
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Hey
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... just to make, for emphasis.
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Please release me, let me go.
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Emphasis.
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Please release me, let me go.
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All right. Is, is Rice, Rice Ed here? I don't see.
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Yeah, he's over doing karaoke.
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All right. Senator Setzler, that's SB 405. That's his taking magistrate court from 15,000 to 50,000.
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Right.
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Any questions that I can't answer? All right. Good. Senator Cowsert, you-
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Feeling okay
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... feeling okay today?
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Mm-hmm.
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Feeling okay? All right. All right. All right. Senator Walker. Thank... Welcome back.
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Thank you.
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We're glad to have you back.
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Thank you, Chairman.
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We missed you. We had a moment of silence for you.
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Missed being with you all. Um, Senate Bill 409 provides consumer protection and transparency for policy holders when insurance companies are using aerial imagery to underwrite, uh, their home. So if they are, if the insurance company decides to non-renew a homeowner's policy based on using aerial imagery to say your roof is in need of repair, then they have to send the policy holder a copy of the picture, and it's gotta be date stamped, and so they can understand what, what they're looking at.
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Okay. Understood. Be hard to... Well, okay. All right. Any questions?
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You got a question-
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Yes, sir
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... about your bill?
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It's a good bill.
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Okay.
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For the people.
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For the people. Senate Bill 444, Senator Kirkpatrick.
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Thank you. You've heard about this patient protection bill to be sure that humans are involved in the AI process for prior authorization.
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Okay. Any questions? All right. HB 244, Representative Cannon. I don't know how he snuck a house bill in here.
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Mr. Chairman, good to be back in the Senate again. Good to see y'all.
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You must, you must know somebody.
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Uh, y'all, y'all saw this bill last year, Mr. Chairman. Um-
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We see a lot of bills.
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Yes, sir. Um, we had a good back and forth with, uh, Chairman Dixon's committee on this bill, House Bill 244. Appreciate the feedback from the committee. Uh, what the bill does, in general, it basically provides some flexibility, uh, in the state's annual audit requirements for small local governments whose expenditures are less than 2.5 million. And by allowing some of this flexibility, it will set the conditions for these local governments to receive some critical state funding for their citizens. So it, it achieves some balance between the cost of compliance for our smaller cities with smaller populations, uh, while retaining accountability for the taxpayers who live there.
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We've, I think we've achieved that balance with this language in the, in the bill, Mr. Chairman. Thank you very much.
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Did you write that speech?
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Yes, sir.
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Good job.
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Appreciate it.
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It was well executed, too.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Any questions? Ah, Senator Hofstetler.
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I- is this applied just to cities, or it would be counties and schools as well?
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Local. Counties and cities, Mr, Mr. Chairman.
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Just counties and cities, not schools?
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No, that's correct.
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Okay.
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That's correct.
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The reason I bring that up is I was looking, and we've had, uh, in '24 there's, according to the audit website, we've got 14 school systems that haven't even turned in their audit. And for 2023, we've got six school systems that haven't turned in their audit. So I don't wanna give them any more extensions.
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Okay. Uh, Senator Harbison, you have a question?
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Thank, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Um, what, what kind of extension are we talking about? Because some of the smaller cities-
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Well-
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... do miss the deadline because-
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That's correct
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... of, I guess, inability to have somebody to carry it out or something.
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Well, there's no requirement for them to have an actual full GAAP audit right now. This actually adds a, a full GAAP audit required every fifth year. Um, but there's no requirement now to have them. We've got some cities that are haven't done an audit in nine years. Um, so there's gotta be some, some, some issues. There's some issues there with that. I'm not sure how we address that. This bill doesn't address that, but for the ones that are, have smaller populations, uh, with smaller expenditure amounts, they're having to go through the same audit procedures that a larger city has. They don't have the staff.
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They don't have the avail-
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Right
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... the, the pay for it. So just, this sets a framework that auditor c- auditor can work with that city and set a framework for them to complete the audit and, um, and be, be in compliance with the, the framework the auditor sets- ... for the city.
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What kind of penalty is involved in this?
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Uh, the penalty is that if you're not in compliance with the audit, you're not a qualified local government, so you're not, you don't have access to CDBG, uh, your LMIG funds, your LRA. So any, any state or federal dollars that flow down through the state to the local government, that you're not, you're not, you can't receive those.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Senator Summers, you had a question. Oh, I'm sorry, Senator Rhett. Your earpiece threw me off.
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I did have a question, but I heard you through my earpiece answer it. Thank you.
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Yes, Mr. Chairman.
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Okay. Is that a question? All right, anything else? You guys got anything for the good of the order over there?
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Just strategizing, and I noticed how Chad has been sitting here.
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Ho- hold on, hold on.
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Just noticing how the, the fine representative, once he got out from under the strong arm of Uncle Sam, apparently he quit going to the barber, and I just can't wait to get back and tell his good friend, uh, that's a friend of mine, that he's forgone the haircuts.
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Mr. Whip, I have a haircut at 8:00, or 5:00 on, on Friday.
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Ranger Joe's?
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Ran- well, I, not Ranger Joe's, but my hometown barber.
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There you go.
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Are you gonna get him to leave that spot alone?
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You in trouble.
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Sorry. Sorry. Look-
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We'll be back
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... the good Lord gave me one thing in life, and it's hair.
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Good hair.
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So-
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I'll be back soon, Mr. Chairman
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... I got nothing else. I didn't get height. I didn't get good looks. I didn't get money. I'll just stop there. 'Cause the list is long. All right. Uh, you're good. Thank you.
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Thank you to the committee. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
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Senator Setzler, we covered your bill, but if you would like to address the committee in less than 45 minutes- ... uh, we can allow that.
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Mr. Chairman, S- Senate Bill 405, uh, simply raises the threshold for magistrate court, allowing folks to represent themselves without incurring the cost of an attorney. I'd like to take questions.
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Right said, Ed. Any questions? All right. I can... Chairwoman, uh, Kirkpatrick's getting antsy over there, so her committee starts at 2:00.
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I've been whispering.
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I know. At what time?
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Soon.
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Ooh, I might take you all the way to 1:59 just to watch you squirm. I'm just kidding. All right. You're good. Thank you. No questions. All right. Let's pick a few. We left, uh... Wow. Senator Kirkpatrick.
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Oh. Well, I'm gonna have to look out for the patients and pick Senate Bill 444.
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Hmm. Picked her own bill.
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How about that?
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Ooh, that's-
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Man.
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That's raw.
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Let's circle that.
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I learned it a lot from this.
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Senator Anderson.
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Let's go with Senate Bill 398.
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Senate Bill 398, wiretapping.
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Let's see. Don't wanna do... Let's do one more. Senator Hufstetler.
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Senate Bill 400.
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Senate Bill 400 for Senator Humperdink. What's that guy's name?
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Engelbert.
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Engelbert. Who names their kid that?
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born in 1440.
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Mr. Humperdink. Old man Humperdink, apparently. All right. I think that's good enough. Uh, all right. We got Senate Bill 398, Senate Bill 400, and Senate Bill 444.
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Motion.
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I got a motion from the majority leader. I got a second from the majority whip. Any further discussion? All in favor say aye.
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Aye.
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Aye.
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Aye.
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All opposed say nay.
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Motion carries unanimous. All right. Y'all get to your committees.