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NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

House - Judiciary Mar 5th, 2025

House Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • However, we do oppose adding any more offenses to those that can incur adult sentencing and have some
  • , but we're extending the sentence to provide treatment and training.
  • I'm the acting director of the New Mexico Sentencing Commission.
  • Madam Chair, Representative, as part of the sentencing...
  • We felt it was appropriate to enhance penalties for practices during those periods of time.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • So, it would be a parallel sentencing enhancement. Okay. But do you think it was enough?
  • So, it would be a parallel sentencing enhancement. Okay. But do you think it was enough?
  • So, it would be a parallel sentencing<01:32:07.679><c> enhancement.
  • </c> sentencing enhancement. sentencing enhancement.
  • Let me finish your<01:32:22.560><c> sentence.</c> your sentence. your sentence.
Summary: The Judiciary Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 2246, which would expand public financial disclosure requirements. The State Ethics Commission strongly supported the bill, saying broader disclosure could help restore public trust and potentially deter corruption, and it offered a clarifying amendment to make clear the requirement applies to board and commission members rather than all employees of listed agencies. Several organizations and individuals also testified in support. A committee member asked about the amendment, and the commission explained it was intended as a clarification rather than a substantive change. The committee then took up Senate Bill 2250, which would add homeless facilities to the locations covered by the drug-free-zone offense for promoting controlled substances. The Public Defender opposed the measure, arguing that many homeless facilities are unmarked and not easily identifiable, creating notice, fairness, and due process concerns and risking arbitrary enforcement. The Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office and Honolulu Police Department supported the bill, saying it targets distributors rather than users, that notice can be proven through evidence, and that the law is aimed at protecting vulnerable people in shelters and similar facilities. In questioning, senators asked how homeless facilities would be identified and whether the bill would cover all shelter models; the prosecutor said the definition is cross-referenced in statute and must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii and other groups testified in opposition, while several service and advocacy groups testified in support. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 2325, which would allow courts to review and potentially reduce sentences for certain juvenile offenders after 15 years if the person is not a danger to the community. Judiciary staff said the court supports the bill’s intent but noted Hawaii’s indeterminate sentencing structure leaves no alternative sentence for a court to reduce to, suggesting the measure may need structural sentencing changes or could instead be directed to the Hawaii Paroling Authority. Public defender representatives and youth-justice advocates supported the bill, emphasizing rehabilitation, adolescent brain development, trauma, and the need for a meaningful opportunity for release. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

MS House Floor - 31 March, 2026; 10:00 AM

Mississippi House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And they would be treated as an adult with enhanced sentencing penalties.
  • </c> regular without the enhancement. regular without the enhancement.
  • is an enhanced...
  • is an enhanced penalty.
  • sentenced to death or um life in prison. sentenced to death or um life in prison.
WV
Transcript Highlights:
  • Do you know the difference between, I mean, we keep saying it's an enhanced penalty, do you know the
  • I'm just wondering if there's also opportunity here to plea in order to get a much lesser sentence and
  • So I think that if we were to raise the top end of this, because right now it's not an enhanced penalty
  • To allow for 20 years, a 20-year sentence, and with language to determine parole eligibility only after
  • And so I increased this to continue on with that enhanced penalty that we have.
Committee: Senate Judiciary
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - Senate Judiciary and Elections

Judiciary and Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is a sentencing enhancement that is added on to an offense when that initial offense involved a minor
  • It is a sentencing enhancement that is added on to an offense when that initial offense involved a minor
  • DCAC is a sentencing enhancement originally designed for the most serious predatory crimes and is now
  • Okay, I didn't know that last sentence I gave it would be so run-on, so...
  • So there's the first set of protection at sentencing.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Appropriations Feb 12th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • Maximum sentence for illegal immigrant gang members.
  • In that instance, 500 criminal aliens conditionally commuted their sentences.
  • It carries maximum sentences for illegals.
  • If I can get a guaranteed life sentence out of somebody.
  • And that also is eligible for a life sentence.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Fiscal Policy Feb 5th, 2026

Fiscal Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB 892 revises Florida's enhanced sentencing laws for repeat offenders, including habitual felony offenders
  • SB 892 revises Florida's enhanced sentencing laws for repeat offenders, including habitual felony offenders
  • sentencing classifications.
  • sentence status so they know if they're going to get the enhanced sentence.
  • It also adjusts how prior convictions are treated for enhanced sentencing purposes while continuing to
Bills: S0124 , S0216 , S0382 , S0488 , S0490 , S0524 , S0584 , S0656 , S0816 , S0892 , S1156
Summary: The Committee on Fiscal Policy met and first postponed SB 524 and SB 1156. It then heard and favorably reported several bills, including SB 488 and SB 490 by Sen. Massullo, which update Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles procedures, raise the crash-reporting threshold, expand email use, and create a related public-records exemption. The committee also favorably reported SB 892 by Sen. Martin on enhanced sentencing for repeat offenders, SB 124 by Sen. Rodriguez updating Florida Virtual School statutes, and SB 584 by Sen. Yarbrough strengthening oversight of commercial driving schools and tax collector authority. SB 656 by Sen. Bradley, codifying the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and related grant program, and SB 816 by Sen. Bradley, formally establishing the University of Florida Diabetes Institute, also passed unanimously or near-unanimously. The most extensive debate centered on SB 216 by Sen. McLean, which would tighten unemployment assistance eligibility by adding job-search requirements, more frequent verification, and fraud-reporting measures. Supporters argued the bill would reduce fraud and improve program integrity, while opponents from labor groups and several senators warned it would burden claimants, especially rural residents, seniors, and workers facing layoffs, and could sharply reduce access to benefits. Despite those objections, the committee reported the bill favorably on a divided vote. The committee also considered CS/SB 382 by Sen. Truenow on electric bicycles, requiring riders to yield to pedestrians, sound an audible signal before passing, and limit speed near pedestrians, while creating a task force to study broader regulation of e-bikes and related devices. A mother whose son was killed on an electric scooter urged the committee to restore scooters to the bill, and several members expressed support for further work on that issue. The committee reported the bill favorably. At the end of the meeting, members recorded additional affirmative votes on selected tabs, and the committee adjourned.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Criminal Justice Mar 25th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • It also creates a sentencing.
  • that we are not enhancing penalties for sex workers.
  • Rid of the enhancements which has been occurring in the enhancements have are what have allowed it to
  • The bill specifies that the enhanced penalties apply to structures used for that.
  • What this would do is have a maximum sentence of 15 years as opposed to life in prison.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • We also significantly revised Enhance the quality of our inspections.
  • Yes, so 59% have had warm handoffs with the community enhanced care managers.
  • I served 27 years off 103 years and three life sentences.
  • I was re-sentenced because they said the sentence should have never happened.
  • But when I paroled, I” “I was re-sentenced because they said the sentence should have never happened,
Summary: The committee heard an overview from the Office of the Inspector General and California Correctional Health Care Services on prison oversight, medical care, reentry, and related budget requests. The OIG requested $275,000 General Fund for two additional intake analysts, citing a sharp rise in complaints from 3,200 in 2022 to 7,860 in 2025 and explaining that the unit reviews and routes complaints, including PREA and staff misconduct allegations, within 30 days. Its medical inspection unit reported on cycle seven prison health inspections, noting generally adequate case-review performance but weak policy-compliance results, especially in medication management and health care environment indicators, and said it was beginning cycle eight with revised inspection methods. Members questioned the OIG about what kinds of complaints were driving the increase, whether the office tracks validity or systemic patterns, and how it distinguishes duplicative complaints from those already handled by CDCR. OIG said the largest categories were prison conditions and staff misconduct, that it does not determine whether complaints are “valid” in a statistical sense, and that it forwards issues to CDCR or other entities as appropriate. Senators also asked about the medical inspection findings, the remaining prisons not yet delegated back from federal receivership, and whether more detail should be provided in future reports. LAO and Department of Finance staff said they had no concerns with the OIG proposal. The committee then reviewed the correctional health care budget, including staffing, pharmacy, contract medical costs, and the state’s progress toward ending the Plata medical receivership. CDCR said it is trying to reduce vacancies through hiring events, social media outreach, new classifications, and more on-site care, while also using CalAIM to improve reentry services; CalAIM officials reported 89% Medi-Cal activation at release, 87% managed care assignment, 88% reentry care plans, and 59% warm handoffs, with about $14.7 million in reimbursements to date. Members pressed staff on the cost of receivership, the pace of delegation, whether more care could be consolidated into fewer facilities, and whether the state should seek more federal reimbursement or alternative staffing models. Finally, the committee discussed the new mental health receivership and a telemental health staffing proposal. The receiver’s office requested $33.9 million from the Mental Health Special Deposit Fund, including $8.2 million for the receiver’s office and $25.3 million to make court-ordered bonus payments permanent; CDCR also sought about $8.9 million for telemental health staffing, growing to $13 million ongoing. LAO recommended approving the action plan and portions of the telehealth request, but urged the Legislature to monitor progress, consider out-of-state recruitment and expanded telehealth, and avoid across-the-board salary increases; Finance cautioned that out-of-state licensure would require major statutory changes and that staffing-ratio changes would need receiver approval. Senators raised concerns about the high cost of receiverships, vacancy-driven fines, the need for more detailed benchmarks, and whether the state should consolidate mental health populations and better target recruitment to fill hard-to-staff positions.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
  • Moving on to the sentencing, the truth and sentencing doesn't really provide truth in sentencing.
  • of that sentence.
  • But if we want to enhance sentences, then...
  • But if we want to enhance sentences, then we're actually going to give you a goal to have to go do, and
  • about you doing sentencing or the Department of Corrections doing sentencing.
Summary: The Committee on Corrections and Public Institutions heard Senate Substitute No. 3 to Senate Bill 888, a broad criminal justice measure sponsored by Sen. Nick Schroer. The bill would change juvenile procedures, including fingerprinting certain offenders under 18, sealing those records for law enforcement and prosecutors, closing juvenile proceedings to the public in some cases, allowing shackling in limited circumstances, and revising the juvenile detention assessment form. It also revises sentencing rules for certain felonies by increasing minimum time-served thresholds, limiting or eliminating conditional release for some offenses, changing how jail-time credit is calculated and challenged, and adding or reclassifying several offenses as dangerous felonies, including some sex offenses, trafficking-related crimes, and endangering the welfare of a child. The sponsor said the bill was intended to improve consistency, public safety, and transparency for victims and offenders, while clarifying that it did not change the elements of endangering the welfare of a child or create a vaccination-based offense. Testimony was mixed. The Missouri Prosecutors Association and Missouri Sheriffs’ United supported the bill, emphasizing clearer sentencing information for victims and stronger consequences for violent and repeat offenders. The Missouri Department of Corrections also supported the sentencing portion, saying the bill’s parole-percentage changes were conviction-based and that the department’s main goal was transparency at sentencing. Opponents, including the Missouri Justice Coalition, the Public Defender System, and several juvenile justice advocates, argued that the juvenile provisions would push more children into adult court, undermine Missouri’s nationally recognized juvenile model, and increase racial disparities and recidivism. They also criticized the mandatory minimums and longer sentences as costly and punitive, warning of higher prison populations and possible new prison construction. Several witnesses raised concerns about the bill’s treatment of vaccination status in the child endangerment section. Committee members questioned the sponsor and witnesses extensively about whether the bill changed commitments versus convictions, the fiscal note, prison capacity, juvenile detention bed space, and whether the measure would apply retroactively. The sponsor and DOC said the sentencing changes were forward-looking and that the bill was meant to provide more certainty at sentencing, though some details were left to experts and later cleanup. The committee recessed during testimony to return after session, then reconvened in executive session. Representative Davis offered an amendment clarifying that vaccination status alone cannot prove endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree, and the committee discussed the amendment before continuing consideration of the bill.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • The managed care plans are still bringing on new enhanced care managers.
  • I think we'd know... ...right, with longer sentences that got reduced.
  • I mean, on an 86 years of life sentence, sorry. Thank you and good luck. Greetings.
  • I served 27 years of a 103-years-to-life sentence.
  • I was resentenced because they said the sentence should have never happened.
Summary: The Senate Budget Subcommittee heard presentations from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), California Correctional Health Care Services (CCHCS), the California Advancing and Innovating Medi-Cal (CalAIM) program, and the Coleman mental health receivership. The hearing focused on correctional health care, reentry, aging incarcerated populations, and the state’s progress toward compliance in the Plata and Coleman receiverships. Members also discussed the OIG’s intake complaint workload and medical inspection findings, as well as broader questions about staffing, vacancies, and the cost of court oversight. The OIG requested $275,000 General Fund for two permanent positions in its intake processing unit, citing a sharp rise in complaints from 3,200 in 2022 to 7,860 in 2025. OIG officials said complaints are categorized by issue and prison, prioritized by urgency, and generally responded to within 30 days, but they do not track complaint “validity” rates. The medical inspection unit reported that in cycle seven, case review performance was generally adequate while policy compliance was often inadequate; the lowest-scoring areas included emergency services, medication management, and health care environment. Members asked for more detailed reporting on complaint types, priority levels, and systemic issues. CCHCS described rising health care costs driven by an aging prison population, staffing vacancies, and contract medical expenses. Officials said more than 80% of the budget is personal services, and they are using hiring events, social media outreach, and expanded classifications to reduce vacancies. CalAIM officials reported early implementation success in pre-release and reentry services, including 89% Medi-Cal activation at release, 87% assigned managed care plans, 88% reentry care plans, and 59% warm handoffs, with about 169,000 claims submitted and $14.7 million reimbursed. The LAO noted that the Plata medical receivership has increased per-person costs and that the state should continue oversight while seeking ways to reduce vacancies and expand federal reimbursement opportunities. For the Coleman mental health receivership, the receiver’s office requested $33.9 million from the Mental Health Special Deposit Fund, including $8.2 million for receiver office staffing and $25.3 million to make court-ordered bonus payments permanent. The LAO supported continued oversight but recommended additional steps to address vacancies, including greater out-of-state recruitment, expanded telemental health, and possible consolidation of mental health services. The LAO also recommended reducing the telemental health staffing request and monitoring its effects. Members questioned the long-term cost of receiverships, the pace of compliance, and whether more detailed benchmarks and staffing data should be provided. No formal votes were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/03/25

Judiciary and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
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  • For it was over a year and probably four months before he was sentenced, and still after sentencing it
  • before he was sentenced and still after<01:06:46.799><c> sentencing</c><01:06:47.559><c> it</c><01:06
  • </c> sentenced um coming up to the sentencing sentenced um coming up to the sentencing day<01:08:40.679
  • </c> but I just thought that we had enhanced but I just thought that we had enhanced penalties<01:34:
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/22/2026)

Criminal Justice and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • or the sentence in some way?
  • Their their sentence. So, a lot of &gt;&gt; Yeah. Their their sentence.
  • Well, actually it becomes an enhancing factor for sentencing purposes. Okay.
  • </c> factor for sentencing purposes. factor for sentencing purposes.
  • it</c> sentencing enhancing factor and it sentencing enhancing factor and it should<04:15:45.199><c>
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on the Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • He was sentenced to 60 days on November 5, 2021, but instead got a death sentence to be carried out by
  • Chapter 6E of the general law is amended by adding the following sentence after the second sentence in
  • people on probation can be sentenced to it.
  • A criminal record should not be a life sentence to economic hardship.
  • A criminal record village shouldn't be a life sentence to economic hardship.
Summary: The Judiciary Committee heard testimony on a wide range of criminal justice, victim services, and records-sealing bills. Early testimony focused on H.1811, the Clean Slate automated record-sealing bill, with supporters arguing that automatic sealing after existing waiting periods would remove barriers to jobs, housing, and education without changing eligibility rules. Advocates from legal aid, business, and housing organizations said the current petition-based system is underused, burdensome, and costly, while opponents of expanding surveillance-related laws urged the committee to preserve privacy protections. The committee also heard testimony on H.1693, which would immediately seal records in cases ending without conviction and clarify the presumption of innocence, with speakers describing how dismissed cases still create lasting collateral consequences and prevent people from moving forward. No votes were taken during the hearing. Several bills centered on victim safety and domestic violence. Senator Michael Moore testified for S.1201, which would keep child-protective orders in effect even if the parent or guardian who filed them dies, and for S.1204, which would update the wiretap statute. Multiple survivors and advocates supported S.1215 and S.1222, arguing for a narrow wiretap defense for recordings made to document threats or abuse and for making GPS tampering a separate felony offense. Testifiers described situations in which GPS devices were cut off or disabled and said current law leaves victims at risk and gives abusers too much leeway. The committee also heard emotional testimony on H.1685/S.1238, a bill prompted by the suicide of Stavri Yanka in custody, with the sponsor, his mother, and the sheriff describing the need for better information-sharing so suicide-risk information follows a person into custody. Law enforcement and prosecutors supported several due-process and dangerousness-related bills. MassCOP, the Boston Police Patrolmen’s Association, and the State Police Association backed H.1828/S.1039/S.1235, which would require de novo Superior Court review for POST Commission suspensions over two weeks or decertifications, arguing officers need a meaningful appeal beyond administrative review. The committee also heard support for H.1691, expanding the dangerousness statute to additional offenses; Bristol County District Attorney Quinn said the changes would let prosecutors seek detention in serious cases such as child rape and manslaughter when facts warrant it. In contrast, the Committee for Public Counsel Services opposed expanding dangerousness detention, warning that pretrial detention causes serious harms and disproportionately affects Black and Hispanic defendants. The hearing also included testimony on H.1654/S.1063 to enhance victims’ rights and H.1525, which would rename and expand community corrections into community justice programs, with supporters emphasizing reentry, reduced stigma, and broader service access.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Law & Justice Jun 4th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • sentencing.
  • sentence.
  • of sentencing outside of the sentencing guideline grid that exist.
  • So indeterminate sentences and parole can exist in conjunction with sentencing guidelines.
  • days, it's a prison sentence.
Summary: The committee held a work session on tort liability and parole, with the chair explaining that the topics were linked because criminal justice reform and state liability often intersect, especially in cases involving child welfare and corrections. Staff first outlined Washington’s tort liability framework, including the state’s broad waiver of sovereign immunity, statutes governing mandatory reporting and investigation of abuse, the childhood sexual abuse statute of limitations, and the lack of caps on non-economic damages. Staff and presenters also compared Washington to other states and noted that Washington remains among the broadest states for state liability and childhood sexual abuse claims. Presenters from the Attorney General’s office, Washington State Association for Justice, DCYF, DSHS, and DOC discussed how tort exposure has grown, especially in claims involving DCYF, historical child abuse, juvenile rehabilitation, vulnerable adults, employment discrimination, medical negligence, and negligent supervision. DCYF and AG staff said claims and payouts are rising, with many claims tied to older abuse and new theories of liability, while defense counsel emphasized the human harm behind the claims and argued that tort cases have historically driven accountability and reform. Agency witnesses said they face large volumes of old claims with limited records, rising verdicts and settlements, and staffing and systems challenges, and they highlighted efforts such as early resolution programs, electronic health records, medication-assisted treatment, and improved incident review processes. The committee then shifted to parole. Sentencing experts reviewed Washington’s move from indeterminate sentencing to the current determinate sentencing system under the Sentencing Reform Act, and explained how parole could be integrated with sentencing guidelines through different models used in other states. They also summarized Criminal Sentencing Task Force recommendations related to a determinate-plus approach for three-strikes and persistent offender laws and a second-chance review process, noting there was no consensus on those ideas. Judges from the Minority and Justice Commission and the Superior Court Judges Association said a parole system could support rehabilitation and reduce disparities if it includes data collection, fairness, transparency, due process, and meaningful judicial review; they also pointed to research suggesting parole and structured reentry can reduce recidivism and costs, while warning that access and outcomes can vary by geography and other factors.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary (01/28/2025)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> provide for any sort of an enhancement provide for any sort of an enhancement for<00:41:20.079><
  • Senator Ganon had said it would be a sentence or, yeah, said it would be a sentence or, yeah, so that
  • Senator Ganon had said it would be a sentence or, yeah, said it would be a sentence or, yeah, so that
  • Senator Ganon had said it would be a sentence or, yeah, said it would be a sentence or, yeah, so that
  • </c><02:04:54.040><c> data</c> there I found U us sentence data there I found U us sentence data sentence
Committee: Senate Judiciary
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 04/02/25

Judiciary and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:04:21.759><c> our</c><00:04:22.160><c> our</c> opportunity to enhance our our opportunity to
  • enhance our our services<00:04:24.040><c> uh</c><00:04:24.199><c> the</c><00:04:24.400><c> ability</c
  • </c> existing databases to the sentencing existing databases to the sentencing guidelines<00:29:56.519
  • sentencing guidelines commission the sentencing guidelines<00:29:58.480><c> commission</c><00:29:58.840
  • </c><00:38:50.319><c> and</c> anyone here from the sentence and anyone here from the sentence and guidelines
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/19/25

Judiciary and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • We see it in our enhanced penalties for what started out as enhanced penalties if you attack a police
  • We see it in our enhanced time.
  • Sentence is needed at all.
  • standards, in addition to sentencing guidelines commission standards for sentencing, and so on.
  • 02:29:30.000><c> minimum</c> sentenced pursuant to mandatory minimum sentenced pursuant to mandatory
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Enhanced search protocols for our staff and visitors.
  • Recently, a court sentenced an individual to an eight-year prison sentence for mailing contraband concealed
  • The enhanced punishments for the possession and promotion of child pornography, the minimum sentence
  • Did he get a life sentence? Because that's what he deserved. It was not a life sentence.
  • Did he get a life sentence? Because that's what he deserved. It was not a life sentence.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/18/2026 - House Judiciary

House Judiciary Committee of Reference

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is called a sentencing enhancement.
  • And frankly, this sentencing enhancement should be called something like 'involved a minor under the
  • So as you pretty much all know, I'm usually on the other side of sentencing.
  • He would do 85% of a 5- to 15-year sentence because that's the maximum sentence you can get and still
  • Two sentences. I just have to be fair to everyone. I understand, two sentences. Okay.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills on criminal justice, victims’ rights, education, and public safety. SB 1094, which creates a civil cause of action for minors who received irreversible gender reassignment surgery in violation of Arizona law, drew strong opposition from civil liberties and LGBTQ advocates who called it discriminatory and unnecessary, and support from the sponsor and medical-policy witnesses who argued minors cannot consent and that the procedures are not medically supported; it passed 6-3. SB 1635, a bill making it a crime to warn a person of an imminent arrest when the speaker knows police are there to arrest that person, prompted extensive First Amendment objections from the ACLU and others, while supporters said it was narrowly tailored to prevent people from helping suspects evade arrest; it also passed 6-3. The committee then approved SB 1673, appropriating lottery-funded money for the law enforcement crime victim notification system, after testimony that the program standardizes and improves victim notifications statewide; an amendment increased the amount from $5 million to $8.2 million, and the bill passed 9-0 as amended. SB 1092, which would bar early termination of probation for dangerous crimes against children, drew emotional testimony from victims’ advocates and opposition from defense-side speakers who warned it would remove judicial discretion and could sweep in people whose conduct was nonviolent or based on accidental online clicks; it passed 6-2 with one member present. Other bills considered included SB 1239, extending the statute of limitations for failure to register as a sex offender, which supporters said would help law enforcement and opponents said was redundant because registration violations are already tracked and prosecuted; it passed 5-4. SB 1139, a strike-everything bill requiring GPS monitoring for homeless registered sex offenders, failed after testimony that existing probation tools already cover the same population. SB 1502, increasing penalties for unlawful flight from police when aggravated by danger, injury, DUI, or transporting a child, passed 5-1 despite concerns about over-criminalization and possible impacts on innocent drivers. The committee also passed SB 1248 on county detention education programs, SB 1240 excluding certain DCAC probationers from county probation incentive calculations, SB 1669 narrowing rape-shield evidence rules to physical injury, and SB 1540 creating a new offense for fuel dispenser theft after an amendment removed mere possession of a device from the criminal statute.