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Committee adopts strike-all for HB1701 to clarify intervention court sanctions
Summary
Senator Sparks presented a strike-all for HB1701 to clarify that intervention-court judges can impose sanctions and that, after defined sanctions, some probationers can be sent to the Department of Corrections without a separate technical-violation hearing; the committee adopted the strike-all and recommended passage.
Senator Sparks explained the revised ("strike all") version of House Bill 1701, saying it would align intervention-court procedures so judges in those courts can impose sanctions and, after certain sanctions, order incarceration without re-running a technical-violation hearing for probationers who have already pled into intervention court.
The sponsor said the language may need refinement (e.g., to ensure PRS participants are covered equivalently) and offered to work with legal staff to clarify definitions. The committee adopted the strike-all motion and voted for a favorable report on the amended language.
