2025 bills / S.B. 81
S.B. 81 Care Provider Abuse Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote (stopped here)
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
This bill creates a new criminal offense for certain care providers who have sexual relations with a person who is experiencing a vulnerability. It also adds definitions for the key terms used in that offense.
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Official description
- defines terms
- makes it a criminal offense for certain care providers to have sexual relations with an individual experiencing a vulnerability
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 81 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 81 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
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to change the bill · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 5 absentSenate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Jan 23, 2025Who voted how
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Jan 31, 2025Who voted how
- 21 yes, 7 no, 1 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 3, 2025Who voted how
- 7 yes, 2 no, 2 absentHouse Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 14, 2025Who voted how
Hearings and debates
- Jan 23, 2025 Senate Judiciary, Law Enforcement, and Criminal Justice Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 12, 2025 House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee▶ Watch
- Feb 14, 2025 House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee▶ Watch
- 31/1/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- 31/1/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- 31/1/2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- Mar 2, 2025 Senate floor debate▶ Watch
- 26/2/2025 House floor debate▶ Watch