 Senate Government Operations Committee. It is Wednesday, March 17th, and as Senator Calamore has reminded us, Happy St. Patrick's Day today. He has on his tie, the rest of us. I guess, oh, and Senator Parent also has on his tie. I guess you can tell who are the Irish among us in any case. Welcome, and we have been working with Senator Parent around his amendment. And I know that we voted 3-2 yesterday to not support it, but supported the basic concept that we want to increase, continue to increase participation in our elections. So I believe Amron has a new amendment that if you would, I don't know if everybody got a copy of it, if you want it, or if it's posted. And if you would like to share it, Senator Parent, do you want to tell us what your intention here is? And yeah, so from the beginning, I obviously started at one level, but always with the hopes and I appreciate the committee and the Secretary of State for working with us to get to something that we could all agree on. I understand that not being in the building this process just gets a lot harder. But ultimately came down to another version of language that I think the chair of the committee could support. And I hope the rest of the committee could support and the Secretary of State's office. And basically we'd be asking for on or before January 30, 2023, the Secretary of State's office shall submit a written report. So no study committee just a report from the office to the House and Senate committees on government operations with its findings and recommendations for legislative action on issues related to implementing universal vote by mail for municipal and primary elections. And the impact of expanding vote by mail would have on access to voting among those who have historically been disenfranchised in populations that have historically low voter turnout and a few other minor things. But ultimately it gets to what I was hoping a study committee would get to. The time's only a month or two later than what we were asking the study committee to do. Obviously, I think this is probably as far as we can go to do anything and just hope to gain your support on the iteration of the amendment. Thank you. Chris Winters, do you like to? Sure. Thank you, Senator. Chris Winters, Deputy Secretary of State. And we really we have no problem with this amendment. And we thank everybody for working on it. We're just really glad that there's so much broad support for vote by mail. And as we've been saying, we just need to approach the August primaries and the local elections really cautiously as there are very different issues to consider there than there are for a general election. And this amendment would have us look at that, look at these issues over the next year and the year after that and then bring forward our analysis with a proposed path forward. So we have no issues with this amendment. Thank you. Thank you. Senator Collomer? I support it. What? I support it. Oh, good. OK, thanks. I didn't hear that. Senator Polina? I like it. Senator Rom? Yes, I really appreciate Madam Chair, you sort of taking extra time on this and I do support it. Thank you. And I will get Senator Clarkson when she joins us. But and Senator Parent, I appreciate your I know you were in the car when we were talking and you were far away from your computer. So giving me the authority to talk with Amron and have her having her draft this. And I get I appreciate the committees, you know, giving me, you know, four meetings on this and and getting to a point where we can say, yes, I really appreciate it and look forward to working with you as we move forward. And hopefully in 2023 when we we get the results from this to do something exciting. Whoever is here in 2023. OK, it's important that you stuck with it, though, Corey. Yeah, yeah, good. Thank you. And I think that we should say that from the very beginning, we all appreciated the intent behind behind your initial attempt here. So thank you. And I appreciate you guys willing to work with me. So thank you again for the process. You're welcome. Thank you. Bye.