2025 bills / H.B. 224
H.B. 224 Inmate Reentry, Finances, and Debt Modifications (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 requires state corrections and jail staff to tell incarcerated people about their known debts, repayment incentives, and financial literacy resources, and to notify state agencies that may hold debt information when someone enters or leaves custody. It also has the state suspend interest on certain debts during long incarceration and suspend child support orders while a person is incarcerated, resuming them 90 days after release.
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Official description
- defines terms
- requires, with a delayed implementation date, a county jail to notify certain state agencies that may have information concerning an inmate's existing debts when an inmate is incarcerated in the county jail for more than 90 days and when the inmate is released from the county jail
- requires, with a delayed implementation date, the Office of State Debt Collection to suspend the accrual of interest on certain accounts receivable during periods of at least 90 days of incarceration and for an additional period after release
- expands the duties of the reentry division created by the Department of Corrections (department)
- requires the department to provide information to an inmate on a regular basis concerning:
- the inmate's known debts
- incentives for paying certain debts while incarcerated
- information on how to access additional information concerning debts and resources on financial literacy and money management
- requires the department:
- with a delayed implementation date, to notify certain state agencies that may have information concerning an inmate's existing debts when an inmate enters and leaves incarceration
- to provide educational resources to individuals designated by an inmate concerning incentives for repaying certain debts while incarcerated
- amends provisions concerning when incarceration may not be considered by the Office of Recovery Services (office) as voluntary unemployment for purposes of a child support order
- requires the office to suspend child support orders and money judgments in certain circumstances relating to incarceration
- provides that the office shall resume a suspended child support obligation after the offender has been released for 90 days
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 224 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 224 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
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Every vote
- 8 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- 69 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFinal House vote · Feb 18, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 25, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how