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Senate Bill 3-24 tightens fentanyl penalties and requires open-court bail hearings for violent repeat arrestees
Summary
Conference committee report on Senate Bill 3-24 raises penalties tied to fentanyl gram amounts, requires open-court bail hearings for violent or repeat violent arrestees, and changes a GPS monitoring requirement into a court consideration, according to the sponsor.
Senate Bill 3-24, described by its sponsor to the Rules Committee as the legislature’s fentanyl penalties and criminal procedure package, would change penalties tied to fentanyl-containing substances, require open-court bail hearings for certain violent or repeat violent arrestees, and make GPS monitoring for domestic violence arrestees a consideration rather than a mandatory requirement in counties lacking capacity.
Representative Clay Jeter, who presented the measure to the committee, said the bill “increased the punishments on fentanyl” by adjusting gram thresholds so that fentanyl-containing substances generally start at a level 4…
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