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2024 SESSION
HB 612 Fines, costs, forfeitures, etc.; collection fees, assessment against incarcerated defendant.
Introduced by: Marcia S. "Cia" Price | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED HOUSE: (all summaries)
Fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution; collection fees; assessment against incarcerated defendant; deferred payment agreement. Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency necessary for an account to be included on the required monthly report of delinquent accounts made by the clerk of the circuit court and district court.
The bill also provides that for any defendant sentenced to an active term of incarceration and ordered to pay any fine, cost, forfeiture, or penalty related to the charge that such defendant is incarcerated for, or any other charge for which such defendant was sentenced on the same day, the court shall enter such defendant into a deferred payment agreement for such fines, costs, forfeitures, or penalties. The bill requires the due date for such deferred payment agreement to be set no earlier than the defendant's scheduled release from incarceration on the charge for which such defendant received the longest period of active incarceration. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2025. This bill is identical to SB 654.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104752D pdf
- 02/05/24 House: Printed as engrossed 24104752D-E pdf | impact statement
- 03/05/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB612ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House amendments adopted
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104752D
- 01/09/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/23/24 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 01/24/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (5-Y 3-N)
- 01/26/24 House: Assigned App. sub: General Government and Capital Outlay
- 01/26/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) (11-Y 10-N)
- 01/26/24 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/29/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendments (4-Y 3-N)
- 01/31/24 House: Reported from Appropriations with amendment(s) (13-Y 9-N)
- 02/02/24 House: Read first time
- 02/05/24 House: Read second time
- 02/05/24 House: Committee amendments from Courts of Justice agreed to
- 02/05/24 House: Committee amendment from Appropriations agreed to
- 02/05/24 House: Engrossed by House as amended HB612E
- 02/05/24 House: Printed as engrossed 24104752D-E
- 02/06/24 House: Read third time and passed House (53-Y 46-N)
- 02/06/24 House: VOTE: Passage (53-Y 46-N)
- 02/07/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/07/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/19/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (8-Y 5-N)
- 02/19/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/27/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/27/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/28/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/24 Senate: Passed Senate (20-Y 19-N)
- 03/05/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/05/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB612ER)
- 03/05/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/07/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 11, 2024
- 03/11/24 Governor: Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 8, 2024
- 04/08/24 Governor: Vetoed by Governor
- 04/17/24 House: House sustained Governor's veto