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Introduced
04/11/2019
04/11/2019
In Committee
04/29/2019
04/29/2019
Crossed Over
04/29/2019
04/29/2019
Passed
05/03/2019
05/03/2019
Dead
Signed/Enacted/Adopted
07/01/2019
07/01/2019
Introduced Session
2019 Regular Session
Bill Summary
Providing for reallocation of unencumbered funds returned to the Crime Stoppers Trust Fund; increasing threshold amounts for certain theft offenses; revising criminal penalties for the third or subsequent offense of driving while license suspended, revoked, canceled, or disqualified; requiring the Department of Children and Families to provide rehabilitation to criminal offenders designated as sexually violent predators; establishing eligibility criteria for expunction of a criminal history record by a person found to have acted in lawful self-defense; creating the Task Force on the Criminal Punishment Code adjunct to the Department of Legal Affairs, etc.
AI Summary
Here is a one-paragraph summary of the key provisions of this bill:
This bill makes a number of changes to the criminal justice system, including: reallocating unencumbered funds from the Crime Stoppers Trust Fund, increasing theft offense thresholds, revising penalties for repeatedly driving with a suspended license, requiring the Department of Children and Families to provide rehabilitation to sexually violent predators, establishing eligibility criteria for expunction of criminal records in cases of lawful self-defense, and creating a Task Force on the Criminal Punishment Code to review sentencing of noncapital felony offenses under the Criminal Punishment Code. The bill also makes various other changes related to criminal penalties, sentencing, restitution, expunction, reentry programs, and data collection and transparency.
Committee Categories
Budget and Finance, Justice
Sponsors (15)
Kimberly Daniels (D)*,
Paul Renner (R)*,
Thad Altman (R),
Mike Beltran (R),
Kamia Brown (D),
Byron Donalds (R),
Michael Grant (R),
Dianne Hart-Lowman (D),
Thomas Leek (R),
Stan McClain (R),
Sharon Pritchett (D),
Rick Roth (R),
Tyler Sirois (R),
Susan L. Valdés (R),
Patricia Williams (D),
Other Sponsors (2)
Appropriations Committee (House), Judiciary Committee (House)
Last Action
Chapter No. 2019-167, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 1021 (Ch. 2019-91), CS/SB 160 (Ch. 2019-45), CS/SB 828 (Ch. 2019-50), SB 910 (Ch. 2019-61), SB 1136 (Ch. 2019-53), CS/CS/SB 1418 (Ch. 2019-134) (on 07/01/2019)
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