HB 50 Summary

• Extends the timeline for bringing arrested persons before a judge or magistrate from 24 hours to 48 hours after arrest, including Sundays and holidays.

• Removes the automatic mandatory revision of release conditions after 48 hours of custody and allows only one bail review hearing solely for inability to pay, with at least 7 days required between reviews.

• Eliminates credit toward sentences for time spent in private residences or under electronic monitoring, but allows up to 180 days credit for time spent in treatment programs.

• Transfers pretrial supervision responsibilities from an independent pretrial services system to the Department of Corrections probation officers, who will now serve as "pretrial services officers."

• Authorizes courts to conduct criminal proceedings via contemporaneous two-way video conference for in-custody defendants for all hearings except trials and sentencings, with defendant consent allowed for sentencings in traffic and misdemeanor cases.