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Senate Judiciary Committee holds first hearing on House Bill 5, the Repeat Offender Act
Summary
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.
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.
Sponsors told the committee the bill would elevate certain weapons-under-disability charges by violent felons from a third-degree felony to a second-degree felony, add a five-year repeat-offender firearm specification that may be imposed alongside an underlying felony sentence, and expand the process by which people can seek relief from firearm disability. Representative Willis…
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