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Committee advances bill tightening jail time, early assessment rules for domestic battery cases
Summary
The Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice voted to pass House Bill 2,192 out of committee after adopting two amendments that require early offender assessments and clarify credit for pretrial detention toward a 90-day jail threshold for repeat domestic battery offenders.
The Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice on Oct. 27, 2025 advanced House Bill 2,192, a measure addressing sentencing and release conditions for domestic battery offenders, after the panel approved two amendments and passed the bill favorably.
The bill, as amended, requires people convicted of a first domestic battery offense to undergo a domestic violence offender assessment as a condition of any grant of probation, suspension of sentence, parole or other release; it also clarifies that days spent in jail prior to sentencing should count toward a 90-day incarceration threshold previously described in the statute.
Jason Thompson, reviser’s office, briefed the committee on the bill. “You heard a little while ago that is the bill about domestic battery. Specifically it’s about second…
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