2025 bills / S.B. 68
S.B. 68 Child Welfare Worker Protections (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill splits the existing crime of assaulting or threatening a child welfare worker into two separate sections. It also makes assault and threats against a child welfare worker's family members part of those offenses.
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Official description
- separates the crime of assault or threat of violence against a child welfare worker into two sections
- amends the elements required to commit the offense of assault against a child welfare worker and includes committing an assault against a family member of a child welfare worker as part of the offense
- amends the current statutory requirements for the offense of threatening a child welfare worker to include threatening a family member of a child welfare worker as part of the offense
- makes technical and conforming changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 68 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 68 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
- 5 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Jan 28, 2025Who voted how
- 28 yes, 0 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · Jan 29, 2025Who voted how
- 9 yes, 0 no, 2 absentHouse Judiciary Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 6, 2025Who voted how
- yes, undefined nofloor amendment · Feb 12, 2025
- 70 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFinal House vote · Feb 12, 2025Who voted how
- 23 yes, 0 no, 6 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how