SB464: Bill Hearings & Public Record

SB464 - Civil Rights Enforcement Rollback

• Official Title: relative to civil rights enforcement.

• Bill Sponsors:(Prime) Abbas (R), Keith Murphy (R), Pearl (R), Victoria Sullivan (R), Gannon (R), Avard (R), Birdsell (R), Innis (R), Ammon (R)

• Summary: This bill changes the standard for civil rights enforcement, adding language that creates a new threshold of motivation for those committing civil rights infringements. That threshold in turn creates an additional burden on prosecutors pursing action against those who have committed civil rights offenses. This weakens the ability to apply civil rights protections and enforcement within the state. The legal ramifications of changing this one sentence in existing state statute will have wide-sweeping implications for those seeking justice within one of the protected classes outline in existing law.

  • BILL UPDATE:

    • Introduced on 01/07/26 and referred to Senate Judiciary Committee

    • Committee hearing on 02/10/26 (room 100, State House, 01:00 pm; SC 5) with an amendment

    • Executive Session on 02/11/26 recommended it be referred to Interim Study (5-0). Senate Executive Session lasted 2 minutes

    • Will go on Senate Consent calendar (03/12/26)

    • Pulled off Consent calendar and reschedule for 03/26/26

    • On Regular calendar for 03/26/26

    • Senate votes OTP (ought to pass) on 03/26/26

    • Introduced to House on 03/26/26 and referred to House Judiciary Committee

    • House Judiciary Committee Hearing (04/08/26) at 10:30am at 1 Granite Place, Room 230

    • House Judiciary voted OPTA (04/08/26). House Committee & Executive Session lasted 122 mnutes.

• Total time spend on SB464: 2 hours, 4 minutes