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Rules committee advances conference report for criminal-code package that adds sentencing changes and bars government-funded ‘obscene’ performances
Summary
Representative Zimmerman told the House Rules Committee on April 15 that the conference committee report for House Bill 10‑14 restores a House‑passed cap on total consecutive jail terms for misdemeanors and adds sentencing and technical changes from multiple bills, including language barring government‑funded obscene performances.
Representative Zimmerman told the House Rules Committee on April 15 that the conference committee report for House Bill 10‑14 restores a House‑passed cap on total consecutive jail terms for misdemeanor convictions and adds provisions from multiple other bills.
The report inserts language creating a class C misdemeanor for illegal dumping of solid waste (from House Bill 16‑77), adds sentencing aggravators and mitigators (from Senate Bill 324), replaces an older statutory term for sexual offenses against children with the industry term “child sexual abuse material” (from Senate Bill 326), and includes a jurisdictional “fix” for juvenile offenses. The report…
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