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Committee endorses HB230 to streamline reentry: jail-based ID services, parole data reporting

House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee · January 28, 2026

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Summary

Lawmakers advanced a substitute of HB230 to let jails assist long-term inmates with driver's-license renewal, authorize virtual licensing services, allow parole officers access to drug-test results with waivers, and require parole housing-status reporting to CCJJ. The committee adopted the second substitute and sent the bill to the floor.

Representative Ballard presented the committee substitute to House Bill 230, which sponsors and supporters described as a package of practical steps to ease reentry and improve corrections oversight.

Ballard said the second substitute includes five components: (1) allow jails to help reissue or renew driver’s licenses for…

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