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Panel reports favorably on housekeeping bill changing victim-services coordinating council reference
Summary
House Bill 3525, amended to update references and modernize language from an oversight review of the attorney general’s office, received a favorable report from the House Judiciary criminal laws subcommittee by roll call.
House Bill 3525, as amended, received a favorable report from the House Judiciary criminal laws subcommittee following sponsor remarks that the changes modernize statutory language and update references made obsolete since enactment. Representative Johnson said the changes came from the House oversight committee’s review of the attorney general’s office and included replacing references to the State Office of Victim Assistance and the chair of the Victim Services Coordinating Council with the Department of Crime Victim Compensation and modernizing terms such as “spousal abuse” to “domestic violence.”
Representative Johnson described H3525 as “just a clean up bill.” Committee members recorded a roll-call vote of 21 in favor, 0 opposed and 3 not voting; the committee reported the bill favorably as amended.
No amendments altering substantive policy were recorded during the committee discussion. The sponsor said the changes were intended to conform the statute to developments since the original law’s passage.
