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Committee adopts technical change and lays over bill to require consecutive sentences for assaults on jail staff
Summary
House File 135, which would require consecutive sentences for inmates who assault county detention staff, was amended to remove state prisons from the language and was laid over for possible further amendment after committee discussion about how the bill would operate when an offender receives probation.
House Public Safety Committee members adopted a technical amendment and laid over House File 135, a bill that would require consecutive sentences for inmates convicted of assaulting detention staff in local jails.
The bill’s sponsor, Representative Myers, said the measure was brought by a sheriff’s deputy and is intended “to require consecutive sentences for inmates convicted of assaulting detention staff, at our local facilities.” The committee adopted a technical amendment, A1, that deletes “state prisons” from the bill so the provision would…
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