Synopsis of Committee Amendments

Legislative Service Commission

LSC Synopsis of Senate Amendments

 

Sub. H.B. 29

126th General Assembly

(S. Judiciary on Criminal Justice)

 

Expands the provision in the House-passed version of the bill that requires that a person charged with committing an offense of violence against a family or household member appear before the court for the setting of bail if the arresting officer indicates certain circumstances in a document accompanying the complaint to also require that a person charged with committing an offense of violence against a family or household member appear before the court for the setting of bail if the person is in a category of offenders for whom a provision of existing law requires the court to consider certain specified factors before setting bail for that person (i.e., the person is the subject of a protection order or consent agreement or previously had been convicted of any of a list of specified offenses involving a protection order or consent agreement or a family or household member).

In a provision of the House-passed version of the bill that requires a court that is setting bail for a person who appears before it under the provision described in the preceding paragraph to consider certain factors before setting bail for that person, reinstates the existing circumstances (i.e., the person is the subject of a protection order or consent agreement or previously had been convicted of any of a list of specified offenses involving a protection order or consent agreement or a family or household member) in which a court that is setting bail for a person charged with committing an offense of violence against a family or household member must consider the factors before setting bail for that person, which existing circumstances were removed under the House-passed version of the bill.

 

 

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