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2024 SESSION
SB 654 Fines, costs, forfeitures, etc.; collection fees, assessment against incarcerated defendant.
Introduced by: Angelia Williams Graves | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (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 HB 612.
FULL TEXT
- 01/15/24 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 24104759D pdf | impact statement
- 02/09/24 Senate: Printed as engrossed 24104759D-E pdf | impact statement
- 02/16/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24107805D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/04/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB654ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- Senate subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate committee, floor amendments and substitutes offered
- Senate amendments
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/15/24 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 24104759D
- 01/15/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/29/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendments (9-Y 6-N)
- 01/29/24 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/07/24 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendment (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/08/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/09/24 Senate: Read second time
- 02/09/24 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/09/24 Senate: Courts of Justic Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/09/24 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/09/24 Senate: Finance and Appropriations Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/09/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB654E
- 02/09/24 Senate: Printed as engrossed 24104759D-E
- 02/12/24 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (21-Y 19-N)
- 02/15/24 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/15/24 House: Read first time
- 02/15/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/16/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24107805D-H1
- 02/16/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/16/24 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/21/24 House: Reported from Appropriations (15-Y 7-N)
- 02/23/24 House: Read second time
- 02/26/24 House: Read third time
- 02/26/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24107805D-H1
- 02/26/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute SB654H1
- 02/26/24 House: Passed House with substitute (52-Y 42-N)
- 02/26/24 House: VOTE: Passage (52-Y 42-N)
- 02/28/24 Senate: House substitute agreed to by Senate (20-Y 19-N)
- 02/28/24 Senate: Title replaced 24107805D-H1
- 03/04/24 Senate: Enrolled
- 03/04/24 Senate: Bill text as passed Senate and House (SB654ER)
- 03/04/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/07/24 Senate: Signed by President
- 03/11/24 Senate: 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 Senate: Passed by for the day