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Senate adopts amendments to reentry bills aimed at diversion, supervision and reentry services (House Bills 14-25, 14-17, 15-49)
Summary
On the Senate floor, committees amended three related reentry bills to refine definitions, remove mandatory tiered sanctions for technical probation violations, add a recovery-and-reentry commissioner to grant oversight, and require a prosecutor-led diversion pilot report by Jan. 1, 2027.
Senators considered a package of bills aimed at improving reentry and diversion practices in North Dakota’s criminal justice system. The Judiciary Committee presented amendments to House Bills 14-25, 14-17 and 15-49; the Senate adopted the committee’s proposed amendments on the floor.
House Bill 14-25: The amendment clarified the definition of a “deflection” process used to redirect people to treatment, explicitly carving out criminal activity that involves bodily injury or damage to personal…
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