2025 bills / H.B. 64
H.B. 64 Public Official Bonding Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill replaces the surety bonds that certain public officials and employees must post for their duties with a requirement that they instead obtain crime insurance. It also removes older bond rules that would no longer apply and sets rules for that insurance, including how rates are set and records kept.
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Official description
- replaces requirements for bonds that a public official or employee is required to post in relation to the performance of duties with a requirement to obtain crime insurance
- removes provisions relating to bonds that do not apply when replaced with crime insurance
- removes provisions that make it difficult or impossible to obtain crime insurance
- modifies, in certain circumstances, the scope of the coverage that relates to a bond that will be replaced with crime insurance
- establishes requirements relating to crime insurance
- addresses liability relating to certain public officials
- addresses the setting of rates and record keeping for crime insurance
- addresses the failure to obtain crime insurance
- repeals certain provisions relating to actions on bonds
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 64 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 64 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · Jan 28, 2025Who voted how
- 6 yes, 0 no, 1 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 21 yes, 0 no, 8 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how