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2014 Regular Session

House Bill 5586

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO VARIOUS STATUTES CONCERNING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.

Became law as Public Act 14-233, signed June 13, 2014, 87 days after it was filed.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To: (1) Revise the procedure for forfeiture of property seized pursuant to a criminal violation; (2) increase the penalties and clarify the applicability of, and the statute of limitations for, certain voyeurism violations, including "upskirting", subsequent violations and violations involving children; (3) provide that probation officers may set bail when serving arrest warrants for violations of probation; (4) revise the offense of harassment in the first degree to reference all communications and not only telephone calls; (5) revise the requirement that tests for blood alcohol levels be commenced within two hours of operation in order to be admitted as evidence in a criminal prosecution for drunken driving or drunken boating; (6) increase the penalty for fraudulent use of an automated teller machine; (7) increase the monetary thresholds that determine the various degrees of "issuing a bad check"; and (8) make technical and conforming changes.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

Its course

March 18 to June 13, 2014, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

Every action27 actions on 12 days

In the House of RepresentativesMar 18 to May 649 days

Judiciary CommitteeMar 18 to Apr 22 · moved on35 days

In the SenateMay 6 to May 71 day

Waiting to be sentMay 7 to May 2922 days

With the GovernorMay 29 to Jun 1315 days

Amendments

Each amendment offered, and what became of it.

  • House of Representatives floor amendmentAdopted

    Adopted May 6 · Adopted May 7

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

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What happened

In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

In the House of Representatives Mar 18 – May 6

  1. Introduced and sent to Judiciary Committee
  2. Heard in Judiciary Committee
  3. Sent to Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee
  4. Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee recommended it
  5. The House of Representatives adopted House of Representatives Amendment A
  6. Passed the House of Representatives with House of Representatives Amendment A

In the Senate May 6 – May 7

  1. Sent to the Senate
  2. The Senate adopted House of Representatives Amendment A
  3. Passed the Senate with House of Representatives Amendment A

To the Governor May 23 – Apr 2

  1. Numbered Public Act 14-233
  2. Sent to the Secretary of the State
  3. Sent to the Governor
  4. Signed by the Governor
  5. Finance, Revenue and Bonding Committee recommended a substitute for it
All 27 actions, as published