STATEMENT TO

SENATE, No. 1018

with Senate Floor Amendments

(Proposed by Senator RUIZ)

ADOPTED: JANUARY 11, 2021

      These Senate amendments add the Director of the Division on Civil Rights in the Department of Law and Public Safety to the membership of the task force created by the bill’s provisions.  The amendments also require that one public member be appointed to the task force by the Governor upon the recommendation of the President of the Senate and one public member be appointed to the task force by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the General Assembly.