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Senate Judiciary Division B advances package of criminal-justice, public-safety and consumer bills
Summary
The committee voted to advance multiple bills including changes to meth possession penalties, a bill to criminalize certain AI deepfakes and image uses, PEER Committee subpoena enforcement, Giglio-list procedural protections for officers, and other public-safety and regulatory measures.
The Senate Judiciary Division B on an omnibus voice vote advanced a series of bills addressing criminal penalties, evidence rules for prosecutors, administrative subpoena enforcement and protections for likenesses and voices in the age of artificial intelligence.
The committee moved most measures by voice vote after brief sponsor explanations and member questions. The most debated items included revisions to methamphetamine possession penalties, the Ensuring Likeness, Voice and Image Security Act (an "Elvis" bill), and legislation granting the Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review (PEER) stronger enforcement tools for subpoenas.
Senator Hill said of Senate Bill 2192 that it "makes our driver's license statute consistent with statute 1-3-83 that the governor signed into law last year," explaining the bill would make license entries mirror the designation recorded at birth and that "a court order that's inconsistent with this subsection shall have no effect on the issuance or renewal of license under this chapter." The committee advanced that bill.
Senator Thompson described Senate Bill 2208 as creating an enhanced penalty for terroristic threats made against an airport, explaining the bill responds to isolated incidents for which no specific airport-targeted offense existed. That bill was advanced by the committee.
Senator Sparks sponsored several bills before the committee. He explained Senate Bill 23-08 would increase fines for illegal dumping, including raising a minimum fine from $100 to $500 in one provision and increasing penalties for larger-volume dumping. He also described Senate Bill 23-29 addressing the practice by some prosecutors of placing law-enforcement officers on a so-called Giglio or "do not call" list; the bill creates a notice-and-hearing process and a path to seek injunctive or appellate relief if the prosecutor persists.
On controlled-substance legislation, Senator Sparks said the measure on hemp products clarifies existing law that products derived from the hemp plant designed for human ingestion are…
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