2025 bills / H.B. 312
H.B. 312 Criminal Justice 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 bans state funds for syringe exchange programs and bars the Department of Corrections from housing inmates in private prisons, except for federal immigration or civil detention. It also adds choking or strangulation to the crime of domestic violence committed in a child's presence, and bars jails from setting bail for some misdemeanor domestic violence and DUI charges.
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Official description
- modifies provisions related to the release of individuals due to overcrowding of correctional facilities
- modifies provisions related to contracting with federal and county entities to house individuals, and establishes reporting requirements
- requires a county sheriff who permits probation to establish probation standards and procedures adopted by the Utah Sheriffs' Association
- prohibits the use of state funds for a syringe exchange program
- adds "detention removal officer" to the definition of federal officers who have statewide law enforcement authority
- prohibits the Department of Corrections from housing inmates in a private correctional facility, unless the purpose is federal immigration detention or civil detention
- modifies definitions related to the state daily incarceration rate
- modifies provisions related to the definition and calculation of the state daily incarceration rate
- modifies permitted uses for funds in the Adult Probation and Parole Employment Incentive Program
- adds strangulation or choking as a criminal offense included with the crime of commission of domestic violence in the presence of a child
- modifies the definition of habitual offender and makes conforming changes
- requires a county sheriff to report statistics on releases due to overcrowding and pretrial release
- modifies provisions related to a county sheriff's release of individuals on their own recognizance
- prohibits a county jail official from fixing a financial condition for an individual with a misdemeanor charge for certain domestic violence and driving under the influence offenses
- modifies provisions related to a magistrate's orders for pretrial release or detention
- modifies provisions related to interlocal agreements regarding release of incarcerated or supervised individuals
- repeals the Subcommittee on County Correctional Facility Contracting and Reimbursement
- repeals outdated provisions
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day H.B. 312 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When H.B. 312 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
- 8 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 8 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 60 yes, 12 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 0 no, 6 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 3 yes, 0 no, 6 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 27, 2025Who voted how
- 19 yes, 5 no, 5 absentFinal Senate vote · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how
- 57 yes, 15 no, 3 absentHouse vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 5, 2025Who voted how