2025 bills / H.B. 38
H.B. 38 Criminal Offenses Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill changes several criminal laws: it adjusts enhanced penalties for crimes committed with gang members or for a gang, and for theft and prostitution offenses it lets prior convictions from other states, federal, or military courts count. It also raises the fine for patronizing a prostitute, increases penalties for recruiting or intimidating minors to stay in a gang, and updates definitions and offenses such as sexual extortion and retail theft valuation.
About this summary
Quotes come from the official recordings' automatic captions, and plain-English summaries are written by AI from the official record. A person reviews them, but always check the recording before quoting anyone; every quote links to its moment in the video.
Check the official text below.
Official description
- amends the enhancement for offenses committed in concert with three or more persons or in relation to a criminal street gang
- amends certain theft, retail theft, and prostitution sentencing enhancements to include prior convictions in other state, federal, or military courts
- clarifies that in sentencing for an offense related to retail theft, the value of the stolen item is determined by the item's retail value
- amends the offense of sexual extortion
- amends the definition of "financial transaction card" in Section 76-6-506
- adds offenses that may be charged as part of a pattern of unlawful activity
- increases the fine for an individual who is convicted of the offense of patronizing a prostitute
- increases penalties for an individual who:
- acts to bring a minor into a criminal street gang in certain circumstances
- acts to intimidate a minor into remaining in a criminal street gang in certain circumstances
- includes coordination clauses to coordinate changes between this bill, H.B. 21, Criminal Code Recodification and Cross References, and H.B. 22, Prostitution Offense Amendments
- makes technical and conforming changes
Your legislators on this bill
Enter your address to see what your own representative and senator did on this bill, and get their contact information and a ready-to-send message about it.
Take action
Session over, but your legislators still want to hear from you; ideas that died often come back next year. How to testify →
- An alert the day H.B. 38 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 38 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Everything members get
Every vote
- 10 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 10 yes, 0 no, 1 absentHouse Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 69 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
MembersGet an alert the day H.B. 38 is put on a committee agenda, with the time and room, so you can be there to speak.Members: $5/mo →
- Feb 3, 2025 House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 28, 2025 Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee▶ Watch
- May 3, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- May 3, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Nov 2, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch
- Dec 2, 2025 House floor debate▶ Watch