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2024 SESSION
HB 857 Fines and costs; changes period of limitations for collection.
Introduced by: Phil M. Hernandez | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)
Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection; deferred payment agreement. Changes the period of limitations for the collection of court fines and costs from within 60 years from the date of the offense or delinquency giving rise to imposition of such penalty if imposed by a circuit court or within 30 years if imposed by a general district court to within 10 years from the date of the judgment whether imposed by a circuit court or general district court. The bill provides that upon the expiration of the period of limitations, no action shall be brought to collect the debt.
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. This bill is identical to SB 514.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104663D pdf
- 02/07/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24106938D-H1 pdf | impact statement
- 03/07/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB857ER) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes offered
- House subcommittee amendments and substitutes adopted
- Senate amendments
- Senate amendments engrossed
- Governor's veto explanation
HISTORY
- 01/09/24 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104663D
- 01/09/24 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/30/24 House: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
- 02/02/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with substitute (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/02/24 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/07/24 House: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/07/24 House: Committee substitute printed 24106938D-H1
- 02/07/24 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/08/24 House: Assigned App. sub: General Government and Capital Outlay
- 02/09/24 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (4-Y 3-N)
- 02/09/24 House: Reported from Appropriations (11-Y 9-N)
- 02/11/24 House: Read first time
- 02/12/24 House: Read second time
- 02/12/24 House: Committee substitute agreed to 24106938D-H1
- 02/12/24 House: Engrossed by House - committee substitute HB857H1
- 02/13/24 House: Read third time and passed House (50-Y 46-N)
- 02/13/24 House: VOTE: Passage (50-Y 46-N)
- 02/14/24 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/14/24 Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/21/24 Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/21/24 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 (11-Y 4-N)
- 02/28/24 Senate: Read third time
- 02/28/24 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/28/24 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/28/24 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended
- 02/28/24 Senate: Passed Senate with amendment (21-Y 18-N)
- 03/01/24 House: Senate amendment agreed to by House (49-Y 46-N)
- 03/01/24 House: VOTE: Adoption (49-Y 46-N)
- 03/07/24 House: Enrolled
- 03/07/24 House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB857ER)
- 03/07/24 House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/08/24 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