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Committee advances bill requiring certified batterers-intervention courses for some domestic‑violence offenders
Summary
The House Criminal Justice Subcommittee voted to send House Bill 661, which would require judges to sentence certain domestic‑violence defendants to certified batterers intervention programs when available in the county, to full judiciary after public testimony from a survivor and counselor.
House Bill 661 — sponsored in committee by Representative White — would require a judge who sentences a defendant for certain domestic‑violence offenses to order participation in a certified batterers intervention program when such a program is available in the county.
The bill sets program length and minimum standards in statute: a minimum course length of 26 weeks and a maximum of 48 weeks; two‑hour sessions; and a counselor‑to‑participant ratio of 1:6. Under the bill, failure to…
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