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Committee backs cleanup to let courts credit compensatory service and treatment against fines with limits

Utah House Judiciary Committee · February 11, 2026
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Summary

The Judiciary Committee adopted a third substitute to HB 94 clarifying that courts may allow credit for compensatory service, classes or treatment against mandatory fines at an updated $12/hour rate, with a prosecutor or judge able to deny credit if it would not be in the interest of justice. The measure advanced 8–1.

Representative Brett Miller presented a third substitute to HB 94, described as a cleanup to last year’s court‑fines reform. The substitute clarifies whether judges may apply credit for compensatory service, treatment or classes toward mandatory criminal fines…

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