Colorado lawmakers advanced legislation Wednesday that would seal name-change records for minors, but only after they removed a more contentious section of the bill because of objections from Gov. Jared Polis.

As it passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senate Bill 18 would require the automatic suppression of most children’s name-change petitions. Supporters say that is necessary to protect the privacy of transgender youth and their families.

But when the day began, the measure also would have directed family court judges to take into account a parent’s acceptance of a child’s gender identity when determining parenting time. That section had revived a provision that was stripped from a transgender rights bill passed last year, and the bill’s sponsors said before the hearing Wednesday that they’d garnered support from various LGBTQ+ advocacy groups to support the language this year.

The provision was pulled from SB-18 after Polis threatened to veto the bill otherwise, according to Rep. Lorena Garcia, one of the bill’s sponsors, and Z Williams, one of the activists supporting the measure.

Garcia said Polis issued the veto threat earlier this month. Williams said the governor told the bill’s supporters that he didn’t want to make any changes to family law.

“It pains us to remove this provision, as it was a title pulled by the late Sen. (Faith) Winter before her death,” Sen. Katie Wallace, a Longmont Democrat, told committee members. Winter, who died in a car crash in November, sponsored last year’s bill, from which lawmakers dropped the same family court provision amid disagreements among LGBTQ+ groups.

In a statement Wednesday evening, Polis spokeswoman Ally Sullivan said the governor “opposed the contradictory and troublesome family law provisions in the legislation, which were substantially the same as those he opposed last year.” She added that LGBTQ+ activists and attorneys specializing in family law had “warned against potential adverse and detrimental impacts on the very children the bill was intended to help.”

“The governor would be open to new legislation regarding record suppression for name changes for all people and appreciates the ongoing conversations with bill sponsors,” Sullivan wrote.

Wallace said earlier in the day that the excised provision was meant to correct “a serious flaw in our family court system” that affects trans children, as well as children who have disabilities, are from different religious backgrounds or are mixed race.