AN ACT RELATING TO CRIMINAL PROCEDURE - SENTENCE AND EXECUTION (Requires courts to consider parental status of defendant at time of sentencing/unless parent poses a significant risk to community that outweighs harm of parent’s absence from child’s life, it shall impose sentence that does not include imprisonment.)
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 15, 2022
Last action Mar 21, 2022
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Total actions
3
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1
Committee
1
Mar 21, 2022
Legislature · Passed
03/21/2022 Committee postponed at request of sponsor (03/24/2022)
legislature
Feb 15, 2022
Introduced
02/15/2022 Introduced, referred to Senate Judiciary
upper
10 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
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