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ID H0118

Bill

Status

Passed

3/28/2019

Primary Sponsor

Judiciary, Rules and Administration Committee

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Origin

House of Representatives

2019 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires all pretrial risk assessment tools to be transparent and open to public inspection, auditing, and testing for all documents, data, records, and information used to build, validate, or operate the tool

  • Entitles criminal case parties to review all calculations and data used to determine a defendant's individual risk score when a court has considered or an expert witness has relied upon a pretrial risk assessment tool

  • Prohibits builders or users of pretrial risk assessment tools from asserting trade secret or intellectual property protections to block discovery of tool materials in criminal or civil cases

  • Defines "pretrial risk assessment tool" as a process that creates or scores factors to estimate a person's risk of failure to appear in court, commission of a new crime, or danger to the community in order to make bail or release condition recommendations

Legislative Description

Adds to existing law to provide certain requirements and restrictions for pretrial risk assessment tools.

CRIMINAL PROCEDURE

Last Action

Reported Signed by Governor on March 28, 2019 Session Law Chapter 258 Effective: 07/01/2019

3/28/2019

Committee Referrals

Judiciary, Rules and Administration3/19/2019
Judiciary and Rules3/5/2019
Judiciary, Rules and Administration2/11/2019

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