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Committee advances Wrongful Conviction Compensation Act to create administrative claims process
Summary
House Bill 533 would create a uniform, statutory process for compensating people who were wrongfully convicted, move claims to the Office of State Administrative Hearings and establish a per-year award formula; committee passed the bill after approving an amendment.
Representative Dempsey and Representative Holcomb presented House Bill 533, described in the hearing as the "Wrongful Compensation Act." Holcomb said the bill establishes a statutory process to compensate innocent people who were incarcerated for crimes they did not commit and moves decision-making from an ad hoc commission to an administrative-law-judge process at the Office of State Administrative Hearings.
Holcomb explained procedural specifics: claims must be filed within three years (with transitional tolling rules for those exonerated…
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