CRIME: Provides for a minimum mandatory sentence for certain hit and run driving offenses (EN SEE FISC NOTE GF EX)
HB 35 establishes a minimum mandatory sentence for drivers who flee the scene of an accident involving their vehicle. It directly affects individuals convicted of hit-and-run offenses where their vehicle was directly involved in the collision. The bill requires courts to impose a specific minimum prison term (details not specified in the text) for these offenses, rather than allowing judges to set sentences at their discretion. This policy change aims to standardize sentencing for certain hit-and-run cases by removing judicial flexibility in these specific situations.
Bill status
signed
all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
May 2025
House Passage
May 2025
Senate Passage
May 2025
Signed into Law
Jun 2025
Introduced Mar 6, 2025
Signed Jun 8, 2025
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MINOR
This bill updates the text of a hit-and-run statute to reflect its final passage as an Act. The substantive criminal penalties remain the same, requiring a minimum two-year prison sentence without parole for drivers who flee after causing death or serious injury. The changes primarily involve adding co-sponsors, updating the bill number, and removing the original draft digest.
Scope change
The scope of the law itself has not changed; the bill was enacted into law with minor formatting updates and the addition of a co-sponsor.
TECHNICAL
Added Representative Tarver as a co-sponsor to the bill.
Updated the document header to reflect the bill is now an 'Enrolled Act' with Act No. 124.
Removed the original draft digest and introductory text that described the proposed law.
Floor votes · Senate May 29, 2025 · House May 6, 2025
How they voted
35–0
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 37
May 29, 2025
D
Democratic11
90% Yea
R
Republican26
96% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
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Actions timeline
Total actions
21
Key actions
4
Committee
5
May 29, 2025
Upper · Passed
Rules suspended. Read by title, passed by a vote of 37 yeas and 0 nays, and ordered returned to the House. Motion to reconsider tabled.
upper
May 21, 2025
Committee
Read by title and referred to the Legislative Bureau.
upper
May 20, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported favorably.
upper
May 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
Read third time by title, roll called on final passage, yeas 97, nays 0. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
lower
Apr 29, 2025
Lower · Passed
Reported with amendments (10-0).
lower
Apr 14, 2025
Committee
Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
Mar 6, 2025
Committee
Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
lower
1 primary · 1 co-sponsor
Sponsors
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