An Act to prevent the imposition of mandatory minimum sentences based on juvenile adjudications
This bill prevents the use of past juvenile court records to force longer prison sentences or trigger enhanced penalties for adults or juveniles. It achieves this by amending state laws to exclude juvenile adjudications from mandatory minimum sentencing rules and from being counted as prior convictions that increase punishment severity. The legislation also ensures that people currently serving time based on these old juvenile records will be resentenced without those records being used against them, while guaranteeing that their new sentences will not be longer than the original ones.
Bill status
passed
3 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2023
Committee Review
Feb 2023
Senate Passage
Feb 2023
Governor
Introduced Feb 16, 2023
Last action Feb 29, 2024
Floor votes
How they voted
This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
4
Key actions
1
Committee
1
Feb 16, 2023
Upper · Passed
Senate concurred
upper
Feb 16, 2023
Committee
Referred to the committee on The Judiciary
lower
1 primary · 10 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Frank Moran
DDemocratic
Co
Brandy Fluker-Reid
DDemocratic
Co
Erika Uyterhoeven
DDemocratic
Co
Estela Reyes
DDemocratic
Co
Lindsay Sabadosa
DDemocratic
Co
Margaret Scarsdale
DDemocratic
Co
Sam Montaño
DDemocratic
Co
Shirley Arriaga
DDemocratic
Co
Steve Owens
DDemocratic
Co
Tommy Vitolo
DDemocratic
Co
Tram Nguyen
DDemocratic
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