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Votes at a glance: Judiciary committee moves several criminal-justice bills to full judiciary
Summary
A single-roundup of bills the committee advanced, including bill numbers, short descriptions, and recorded committee vote tallies.
The House Judiciary Committee concluded a long agenda and sent multiple bills to full judiciary. Below is a concise list of each bill the committee acted on, a short description, the committee outcome, and the recorded roll-call totals where given.
Votes at a glance
- House Bill 10,089 (mental-health evaluations in sentencing): Adopted amendment 4,598; advanced to full judiciary — recorded as 6 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting.
- House Bill 10,093 (weapons: Glock-switch and related penalties): As amended, advanced to judiciary pool — recorded as 7 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 55 (refusal to provide name to law enforcement): As amended, advanced to full judiciary — recorded as 5 ayes, 2 nays.
- House Bill 11,177 (Jillian's Law follow-up; competency and treatment for defendants found incompetent): As amended, advanced to full judiciary — recorded as 5 ayes, 1 nay, 1 present not voting.
- House Bill 1,200 (domestic-violence offender registry, "Savannah's Law"): As amended, advanced to full judiciary — recorded as 7 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 190 (lower enhanced BAC threshold from .20 to .15 for aggravated vehicular assault/homicide): Advanced to full judiciary — recorded as 7 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 71 (referred to summer study at sponsor request): Moved to summer study — recorded as 6 ayes, 0 nays, 1 present not voting.
- House Bill 706 (additional assistant district attorneys, investigators, and public defenders in districts with correctional institutes): Advanced to full judiciary — recorded as 7 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 99 (unlawful photography — evidence disposition and registry requirement): Advanced to full judiciary — recorded as 7 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 49 (privilege and meeting closures for District Attorneys General Conference; pro tem in civil proceedings): Advanced to full judiciary — recorded as 7 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 361 (allow courts hearing domestic-violence/assault cases to issue protective orders): Advanced to full judiciary — recorded as 7 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 1,166 (workplace violence: law enforcement to inquire about workplace-bullying component): Advanced to full judiciary — recorded as 7 ayes, 0 nays.
- House Bill 787 ("Distance to Drive" study to evaluate court-facilitated license reinstatement): Advanced to full judiciary as a study bill — recorded as 6 ayes, 0 nays.
Other housekeeping motions rolled items later on the calendar as recorded during the meeting.
