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H.B. 354 Criminal Justice Revisions (2025)

Became lawWritten by Rep. Ryan D. Wilcox · carried in the Senate by Sen. Kirk A. Cullimore

  1. Introduced
  2. House committee
  3. House vote
  4. Senate committee
  5. Senate vote
  6. Signed into law

What this bill does

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This bill requires county jails to collect biometric and personal information from people brought in for booking and to link them to their state ID number. It also expands criminal-justice data reporting: prosecutors and courts must report data on charge enhancements and prosecutions, dismissals, and declinations, law enforcement must report DUI crash and firearm data, and the Department of Corrections must risk-assess people convicted of sex offenses that require registration.

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Official description
  • defines terms
  • adds county attorney offices in counties of the second and third class to the statute requiring certain prosecutorial data collection and reporting regarding criminal cases and modifies requirements
  • requires a county jail to:
  • collect biometric and other personal information for individuals brought to the county jail for processing or booking into custody regardless of whether the county jail retains custody of the individual
  • to the extent possible, connect an individual in custody with the individual's state identification number and use the state identification number in association with any records regarding the individual
  • amends the membership of the Public Safety Data Management Task Force
  • requires the State Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice (the commission) to include certain DUI crash data in an annual DUI report
  • requires the Department of Public Safety's Criminal Investigations and Technical Services Division to collect certain DUI crash data and provide the data to the commission
  • establishes law enforcement agency requirements concerning:
  • the collection and reporting of certain DUI crash data
  • the sharing of information with the Department of Public Safety's statewide criminal intelligence system
  • the collection and reporting of certain lost, stolen, and untraceable firearms
  • the collection and reporting of the disposition of firearms in the custody of a law enforcement agency
  • requires the commission to receive, compile, and publish law enforcement agency data concerning firearms
  • requires law enforcement agencies to supply certain law enforcement officers with a portable biometric capture device
  • provides that the public safety data portal is the repository for statutorily required data concerning:
  • certain DUI crash data
  • law enforcement agency reporting requirements for certain firearms data
  • prosecutorial data collection regarding prosecutions of false sexual assault accusations
  • imposes certain requirements for software service vendors if the software service is for use by a criminal justice agency and collects and stores data required by statute to be reported to the commission
  • requires prosecutorial agencies and courts to report to the commission data concerning enhancements to criminal charges
  • requires all prosecutorial agencies in the state to submit data to the commission concerning certain prosecutions, dismissals, and declinations to prosecute
  • exempts certain reporting requirements from law enforcement grant eligibility requirements
  • modifies pretrial release data reporting requirements from the Administrative Office of the Courts
  • requires the Department of Corrections to conduct a risk assessment for every individual convicted of a sex offense that would require the individual to register on the Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry
  • requires the Department of Corrections, until January 1, 2030, to submit the results of risk assessments for sex offenders to the commission
  • includes coordination clauses to:
  • merge the changes to Sections 63I-2-277 and 77-41-115 in this bill if this bill and S.B. 41, Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry Amendments, both pass and become law, including to address the repeal and replacement of Section 77-41-115 in S.B. 41 with a newly enacted statute
  • merge the changes to Sections 53-25-104 and 63A-16-1002 if this bill and H.B. 436, Impaired Driving Amendments, both pass and become law
  • makes technical and conforming changes
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