2025 bills / H.B. 35
H.B. 35 Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill makes the Department of Corrections the agency that supervises sex offenders placed on probation, and changes when the department or a county sheriff must register an offender on the Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry. It also requires the department to risk-assess every person convicted of a registrable sex offense and, until January 1, 2030, send those results to the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.
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Official description
- clarifies that the Department of Corrections is the agency that supervises sex offenders who are placed on probation
- amends when the Department of Corrections or a county sheriff is required to register an offender on the Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry
- requires the Department of Corrections to conduct a risk assessment for every individual convicted of a sex offense that would require the individual to register on the Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry
- requires the Department of Corrections, until January 1, 2030, to submit the results of risk assessments for sex offenders to the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 27 yes, 41 no, 7 absentHouse vote, which failed · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- 23/1/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch