The Senate adopted the conference committee report for Senate Bill 26 01, a cleanup and refinement of the Landowners Compensation Program created in the previous legislature to reimburse property owners for damage tied to border crime.

Senator Blanca (identified in transcript as Senator Blanco) presented the report and described negotiated changes with stakeholders and the attorney general’s office. The report kept the program name as enacted in the Senate, restored use of the legal term “real property” in key parts of the bill, expanded reimbursable damages to include livestock, timber and crops up to $10,000, removed duplicative law‑enforcement language and tightened funding source definitions while restoring the program’s expiration provision.

“The language in this report has been carefully negotiated among key groups in the Attorney General's office. To that end, the committee, conference committee report rectified the differences between the Senate and the House version by keeping the program name as it is in the Senate, restoring the legal term real property in crucial parts of the bill, expanding, reimbursement under this program for damages to livestock, timber, and crops, up to $10,000 removing duplicative and burdensome language for law enforcement, and then tightening up funding sources and restoring the expiration provision of the program,” the sponsor said on the floor.

The Senate adopted the conference committee report by roll call; the adopted report will be enrolled for the next steps toward enactment. The transcript does not specify the total appropriation amount or the number of claimants eligible under the revised rules.