2025 bills / H.B. 78
H.B. 78 Criminal Offenses Amendments (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 requires prosecutors to explain on the record why they are lowering the level of certain charges, whether in a charging document or as part of a plea deal. It also requires an indeterminate prison term for certain attempt convictions, with exceptions, and raises penalties for aggravated child abuse.
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Official description
- requires a prosecutor, when reducing the level of certain crimes in an information or as part of plea deal, to explain on the record why the prosecutor is seeking the reduction
- requires an indeterminate prison term to be imposed, with exceptions, for certain attempt convictions
- increases penalties for the crime of aggravated child abuse
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 78 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 78 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
- 9 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 73 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFinal House vote · Feb 11, 2025Who voted how
- 5 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 20 yes, 0 no, 9 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 72 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how