HB 68 Summary

• Requires the Criminal Justice Research Institute to establish and maintain a centralized statewide criminal pretrial justice data reporting and collection system that extracts, links, and merges data from existing state databases rather than creating a new database.

• Mandates that ongoing staff support for the system be conducted by the Institute's own staff and cannot be contracted to another entity.

• Requires the Institute to protect all information and data shared across agencies and to submit semi-annual reports to the legislature in 2024 and 2025 regarding system creation.

• Directs the Institute to develop and track seven specific performance indicators including court appearance rates, new offense charges during pretrial, and length of stay in jail for eligible defendants.

• Appropriates unspecified general revenue funds for fiscal years 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 to establish the centralized criminal pretrial data system.