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Panel clears bill to separate restitution deadlines so judges have time to set awards
Summary
House Bill 1304 (13‑04) would decouple prosecutors’ and courts’ restitution deadlines so judges have a separate 63‑day window to hold hearings and enter final restitution orders; the committee forwarded the bill with a favorable recommendation.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to send House Bill 1304 (referred to as 13‑04 in committee) to the Committee of the Whole with a favorable recommendation after sponsors said statutory deadlines for restitution currently overlap and have produced cases in which courts lost authority to order restitution.
What the bill does: Under current law, parallel statutory deadlines can leave a court with little or no…
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