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Committee advances a package of criminal‑code bills; several votes held open for absent members
Summary
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee moved multiple bills forward on April 8, including measures on expungement, juvenile handgun direct filing, capital‑case intellectual‑disability evaluations, cold‑case DNA testing and a major CSAM overhaul. Several roll calls were held open for members in other committees.
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee advanced several bills across criminal justice topics on April 8, voting to move measures on expungement, juvenile gun possession, capital case procedure, cold‑case DNA testing and child sexual‑abuse‑material law out of committee.
The committee approved Amendment No. 5 to House Bill 11‑18, a recodification of expungement provisions that adds language requiring completion of a Department of Correction sentence and a five‑year wait before petitioning for expungement. The committee took a motion to pass the bill as amended and recorded an initial roll call that the chair described as 9–1;…
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