Creating a specialty business court, providing fees, and including effective date and applicability provisions

Where it is now

1. ✓
   Done: IntroducedMarch 4, 2025
2. ✓
   Done: SubcommitteeMarch 4, 2025
3. ✓
   Done: Senate committeeMarch 6, 2025
4. –
   Skipped: Passes the SenateContinued as SF 639
5. Next: House committee
6. Next: Passes the House
7. Next: To the Governor
8. Next: Signed into law

Became SF 639 → Its progress continues under the new number. Go to SF 639 What’s a funnel?

Amendments · 4

2 adopted · 1 failed · 1 never voted on. Newest first.

• S-5255 · filed May 3, 2026 by

  AI summary This amendment changes the number of judges on the new business court from five to two and outlines how those judges are selected and assigned. It also allows business court judges to work on regular district court cases when they have extra time and requires the judicial branch to submit a performance report to the legislature by January 1, 2029. Finally, it moves the effective date of the bill from 2025 to 2026.
  Never voted on
• H-8456 · filed May 1, 2026 by

  AI summary This amendment allows a case to be moved to the new business court if everyone involved in the lawsuit agrees to it in writing.
  Failed
  8–77
  May 2, 2026
• H-8447 · filed April 30, 2026 by

  AI summary This amendment adds a requirement for the judicial branch to submit a report to the general assembly by January 1, 2029, regarding how the new business court is performing. It also changes the effective date from 2025 to 2026.
  Adopted
  May 2, 2026
• H-8440 · filed April 30, 2026 by

  AI summary This amendment changes the number of judges on the new business court from three to two and provides specific rules for how those judges are selected and filled. It also allows the supreme court to assign business court judges to regular district court cases when they have time and delays the effective date of the bill from 2025 to 2026.
  Adopted
  May 2, 2026