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Senate Judiciary committee approves minutes and sends several requests and bills to print or to the floor
Summary
The Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee approved its Feb. 24, 2025 minutes, voted to print four legislative requests (RS) and sent two House bills to the floor with a "do pass" recommendation: House Bill 321 (squatter removal) and House Bill 380 (aggravated lewd conduct).
The Senate Judiciary and Rules Committee approved its minutes and advanced several pieces of business during a session that included presentation of multiple RS (requests to print) and consideration of two House bills.
The committee opened by approving the minutes of Feb. 24, 2025, on a motion from Senator Shippy with a second from Senator Recti. The panel then voted to print several RS drafts after brief sponsor introductions: RS32668C1 (license-plate readers; also a separate provision on front license plates), RS32513C1 (a long uniform-law-style overhaul of conservatorship/guardianship/probate code), RS32692 (a trailer to an enacted newborn screening law expanding exemptions), and RS32693 (clarifying state public defender responsibilities and a transition plan). Each RS was presented briefly and carried on voice votes to send to print.
Two House bills received fuller committee action. House Bill 321, introduced by Senator Keiser, would create a process allowing a property owner to request sheriff-assisted removal of an unauthorized occupant from residential real property if the bill's listed conditions are met. The committee voted to send HB 321 to the full Senate with a do-pass recommendation by voice vote.
House Bill 380, introduced by Representative Bruce Scogg and drafted with input from prosecuting attorneys, creates new aggravated offenses for sexual crimes against minors in specified circumstances. The bill establishes graduated aggravated offenses by victim age and sets mandatory-minimum sentences for the most serious categories; for children under 12 the bill provides for a 30-year minimum where two aggravating factors are proven and makes a death-penalty sentencing option possible where three statutory aggravators are proven. The Idaho Prosecuting Attorneys Association testified in favor of the bill's sentencing enhancements and prosecutors' sections; the Idaho Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers testified in opposition, citing concerns that the bill is overbroad, could suppress reporting, and would create large fiscal and defense-capacity burdens. After debate the committee voted to send HB 380 to the floor with a do-pass recommendation; Senators Wintrow and Foreman were recorded as opposed.
The committee adjourned after completing the agenda.
