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IN HCR0028
Concurrent Resolution
Status
2/4/2020
Primary Sponsor
Wendy McNamara
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AI Summary
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Urges the Indiana General Assembly to recommit all bills creating or amending criminal penalties to the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee or House Courts and Criminal Code Committee after passing their originally assigned committee
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Criminal committees would review only the criminal penalty provisions of recommitted bills, not other substantive provisions, to assess consistency and proportionality with existing Indiana Code penalties
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References House Bill 1006 (2014), which reformed Indiana's Criminal Code after a five-year study to ensure consistency, proportionality, and effectiveness
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Notes that over 35 bills adding or amending criminal penalties were assigned to non-criminal committees in the previous three legislative sessions
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Resolution was prepared by the interim study committee on corrections and criminal code and passed the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee 7-0 on February 18, 2020
Legislative Description
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the Indiana Senate and the Indiana House of Representatives to adopt the practice of recommitting all bills creating or amending a criminal penalty to the Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee or the House Courts and Criminal Code Committee after the bill has passed the committee to which the bill was originally assigned. (The introduced version of this resolution was prepared by the interim study committee on corrections and criminal code.)
Last Action
Second reading: failed Division of the Senate: yeas 18, nays 28
2/20/2020