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This Senate resolution suspends certain Senate rules to grant the conference committee broader authority when resolving differences on Senate Bill 2972, which concerns expressive activities at public higher education institutions. Specifically, the resolution allows the conference committee to make two key modifications: first, to change, alter, or amend text in Section 2 of the bill by striking out "[content-neutral]" and substituting "content-neutral," which is intended to clarify that restrictions on expressive activities must use content-neutral criteria; and second, to omit unnecessary text at the end of the same section by removing the word "and". These rule suspensions are authorized under Senate Rule 12.08, which permits temporary modifications to standard procedural limitations, and the resolution was adopted by the Senate on June 1, 2025, with 22 votes in favor and 9 votes against. The primary purpose appears to be providing the conference committee more flexibility in fine-tuning the legislative language of the bill related to expressive activities.