2025 bills / H.B. 15
H.B. 15 Murdered and Missing Indigenous Relatives Task Force Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill re-creates the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Relatives Task Force, made up of nine members from government and community groups. It sets rules for filling vacancies, names the legislative appointees as cochairs, requires five members for a quorum, provides pay for members, and has the Legislature's staff support the task force, which reports to an interim committee before the task force is repealed.
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Official description
- defines terms
- reestablishes the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Relatives Task Force, with the membership consisting of nine members from government and community organizations
- requires that any vacancy in the task force be filled in the same manner as the original appointment
- designates the appointees from the Senate and House of Representatives as the cochairs of the task force
- establishes that a quorum of the task force consists of five members and that majority action of the quorum is required for task force decisions
- establishes compensation requirements for both legislator members and non-legislator members of the task force
- requires that the Office of Legislative Research and General Counsel provide staff support to the task force
- provides for the responsibilities of the task force
- provides that the task force must report its findings to the Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee
- provides for the repeal of the task force
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 15 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 15 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 7 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 0 no, 4 absentHouse Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 61 yes, 0 no, 14 absentFinal House vote · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 1 no, 2 absentSenate Revenue and Taxation Committee: vote to approve it · Mar 4, 2025Who voted how