Thank you, Chair.
It's just a slight change here to line 8 on page 4 of the bill. This comes from the testimony of Ms. Rosel Kim, who is the staff lawyer at the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund. In her opening statement, she talked specifically about clause 4 as it relates to the reasons. She suggested directly in her opening statement that “where written reasons are not available in a sexual assault trial, the transcripts of the decision only, and not a transcript of the entire trial, should be...available on publicly accessible domains.”
Following her recommendation, I have decided to come up with an amendment to that final line to change it to “provided in writing and made publicly available.”