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Author of bill on childcare abuse mandatory minimums shares family story; House file 1590 laid over
Summary
Representative West told the Public Safety Committee her child was abused at a daycare and described the bill she brought to create mandatory minimum prison terms for malicious treatment of a child under 4. The committee laid the bill over because a fiscal note was not yet available.
Representative West, the bill author, told the House Public Safety Committee on March 26 that House File 1590 would create mandatory minimum sentences for malicious treatment of a child under 4 and asked the committee to consider the measure.
The bill would set a minimum one-year sentence when malicious treatment of a child under 4 is charged as a felony; a minimum two-year sentence if the felony involves great bodily harm; and would convert a second gross-misdemeanor conviction for…
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