2025 bills / H.B. 450
H.B. 450 Victim Privacy Amendments (2025)
- Introduced
- House committee
- House vote
- Senate committee
- Senate vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
This bill lets a crime victim ask that their initials, rather than their full name, be used in publicly available criminal justice documents. It also requires a database of victim names that can be searched when a court orders it, and keeps that database protected from public records requests.
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Official description
- allows a victim of a crime to request to have the victim's initials used instead of the victim's name in publicly available criminal justice documents
- requires a database of victim names that is searchable in response to a court order
- provides that a database of victim names is a protected record under the Government Records Access and Management Act
- makes technical and conforming changes
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Every vote
- 8 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to change the bill · 2/18/2025 5:36 PMWho voted how
- 8 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · 2/18/2025 5:37 PMWho voted how
- 68 yes, 0 no, 7 absentFinal House vote · 2/25/2025 10:34 AMWho voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · 3/4/2025 2:48 PMWho voted how