H 1688 Massachusetts House · 193rd Legislature (2023-2024)

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
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This bill passed the Senate. No roll call record of that vote is available.
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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

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