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[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: Welcome to the House Judiciary Committee this Friday afternoon. Very briefly, just wanted to we we had scheduled for 01:00 a discussion on h five. We're gonna have at least three I think at least three more witnesses next because I've somehow lost next week's agenda. We're gonna have it sometime next week. I think it's Thursday at one. Thursday at one. We're gonna have some more h five. Thank you. Yeah. There it is. So I'm gonna postpone my that discussion till after we have that testimony, will hopefully be including somebody from the public defender's office, which I think is most critical, you know, that piece that is missing still. And then also the recidivism bill, I was gonna discuss that, but h four ten. But I think from yesterday, I have a path and will bring something back at some point. I think everybody was here. Everybody was there that's here right now. I don't need to repeat what that is. At least here physically. Yeah. Maybe nobody actually by that point was paying attention to what I was talking about, kind of recidivism. Yeah. Understood that. But next week, so people can prepare over the weekend or on Monday, they can do their homework. Tom is gonna be running the show on Tuesday afternoon for some witnesses on h five seventy eight. That's an accolade to penalties and pretentious for annual cruelty offenses. That will go into Wednesday as well on testimony both morning and afternoon. I'm really hoping to leave have that I'm hoping that that's equal to date with Bill, because we have a lot of other things that we need to get through. I'm starting to hear more and more important things that we need to not that that's not a month. Thursday, H541, that's an act relating to interference with voters and election officials. And then H five in the afternoon. And on Friday, I think my plan is to try to have a discussion about the bills that we've addressed, or if we all seem to be ready to vote them out. That's kind of like I'm gonna try to implement that for the session. But if anybody has additional witnesses, if they wanna look at the agenda when it's posted later this afternoon, let me know Monday if there's additional witnesses for any of those things that you want to hear, particularly H5. That's all I have. Any questions? Anything else? Yeah.
[Unidentified Member]: Just I'm assuming that that schedule for H5 is taking into account. It seems like maybe a pretty sticky wicket on the mental health side of it.
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: That's put aside. That's going to be, I believe, it can be a short form bill if somebody is willing to put the short form bill in. I mean, guess I can. And if we have time, because that's big. And that's a lot of witnesses we would have to see. I thought that Wilder's testimony was very compelling on me. And especially when you kind of look at what that rule is supposed to do. I can understand it with with the children and certain ages, but it doesn't make as much sense for Yes.
[Unidentified Member]: I believe I was in my dental chair during that second. And state's attorneys? Which? On age five. Yeah. Yeah.
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: Yeah. Kim Kim yeah. It's worth watching. Kim did an excellent job of explaining how that's helpful. Yeah.
[Unidentified Member]: Oh, yeah. The brick wall.
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: Yeah. So
[Unidentified Member]: So theoretically, we would move forward with age five.
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: Theoretically, we could vote on it next Friday.
[Unidentified Member]: And that would mean that when it goes into effect, it wouldn't really impact the mental health. The mental health thing would just stay the same as it is. Right.
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: Okay.
[Unidentified Member]: We wouldn't be removing that language.
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: The mental health? Mental illness? No, because we need to talk to a lot more of masses. That's a bigger issue. That wasn't on the radar, and there's so many other issues that we're already going
[Unidentified Member]: to get to. Got it. So that's the short form bill. It's dealing with whether or not the changes in that section
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: of the period. Right. Yeah.
[Unidentified Member]: Or even do you foresee the short form being to The that but specific to that section, or would you broaden it?
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: It's upsets.
[Unidentified Member]: I imagine there are other spots in statute where mental illness is treated.
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: I think there are children. At least, Mildew White has been very good at telling this out to me.
[Unidentified Member]: Okay, so
[Unidentified Member]: there Will that hasn't brought forward other
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: No, no.
[Unidentified Member]: Think if stuff comes up, she looks through it very carefully, right?
[Martin LaLonde (Chair)]: Yeah, yeah. So no, I don't think it fits broader than that. This would be broad enough, just dealing with other challenges. Yeah, I think that's it. Anything else? A good weekend? Enjoy the weather? I'm done. Wow, that's right, yeah. Two peoples
[Unidentified Member]: out the door.