Senate Judiciary Committee holds first hearing on House Bill 5, the Repeat Offender Act
Sponsors told the Senate Judiciary Committee HB5 would create a repeat-offender firearm specification, raise penalties for weapons-under-disability by violent felons and create a revised expungement pathway; committee members questioned the bills effects on rehabilitation and employment.
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At a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sponsors testified on House Bill 5, the Repeat Offender Act, which they said would create a repeat-offender classification for violent felons who possess firearms and raise penalties for firearm offenses.
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