HB 5057 Summary

• Expands notice requirements for serious misdemeanor cases to apply when cases are resolved by trainee status assignment, delayed sentencing, deferred judgment, or other non-acquittal/non-dismissal resolutions.

• Allows courts, corrections departments, health and human services, sheriffs, and prosecutors to furnish victims with otherwise confidential information and records to fulfill victim notification duties.

• Requires notices be mailed to victim-provided addresses, or to an address designated by the Attorney General if the victim is an address confidentiality program participant.

• Requires prosecutors to provide victims of serious misdemeanors with written notice within 48 hours of arraignment containing procedural steps, victim rights, crime victim compensation details, and contact information.

• Allows victims of prisoners sentenced for serious misdemeanors to request notice of earliest release dates, name changes, and day parole or work release placements; effective only if SB 70 is enacted.