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Committee advances release-on-recognizance changes and other bail reforms with amendments
Summary
HB 2413, which would require release on recognizance for many nonviolent offenses subject to conditions and revise bail-reconsideration and findings procedures, was passed by the committee with several substantive amendments and committee report language explaining court and bail considerations.
The committee debated and adopted several amendments to HB 2413, which would require release on recognizance for defendants charged with certain nonviolent offenses (traffic offenses, nonviolent misdemeanors, nonviolent class C felonies) subject to conditions. The chair laid out proposed amendments to define "violent" using the code cross-reference, replace written findings with oral findings on the record and reflected in minute orders, limit bail reconsideration without cause to one time (with additional reconsideration allowed for changed circumstances), and clarify which officers may file certain applications.
The chair emphasized constitutional and cost considerations in bail policy, noting "you are innocent until proven guilty" while outlining the committee's approach to balancing appearance assurances with due-process principles. The committee recorded adoption of the measure with amendments; the vice chair recorded a vote with reservations in the transcript.
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