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Committee backs SB 552 to allow county attorneys to seek transfer of probation revocation petitions

Senate Judiciary Committee
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Summary

The Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 552, which permits a county attorney in the county where a defendant commits a new felony to petition transfer of the original probation-revocation matter so local prosecutors can consolidate revocation and new-felony proceedings.

Senator Barry Usher introduced Senate Bill 552 to address a procedural gap: when a person who received a suspended or deferred sentence in one county later commits a felony in another county, the new county cannot always obtain revocation of the original sentence without the original county’s active petition. SB 552 allows the…

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