Bill Summary: HB05500 (Public Act No. 24-137)

• Revises risk protection order procedures to allow judges to consider recent threats, violence, acts of cruelty to animals, firearm misuse, substance abuse, and prior psychiatric confinement when determining probable cause.

• Overhauls DUI license suspension procedures by replacing fixed suspension periods with a 24-hour initial suspension followed by Commissioner of Motor Vehicles proceedings, with ignition interlock device requirements lasting 6 months to 3 years depending on offense type and age.

• Changes incarcerated person compensation from a range of $5-10 per week to a minimum of $1 per day with skill-based increases, and establishes priority disbursement for restitution, victim compensation, dependent support, and incarceration costs.

• Allows crimes committed via electronic communication (email, text, messaging apps) to be prosecuted at either the location where the communication originated or was received.

• Modifies judicial retirement salaries and standing criminal protective order provisions while adjusting competency restoration placement procedures to presume outpatient treatment for non-felony defendants.