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CS/HB 7139: Drug Court Programs

GENERAL BILL by Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations Committee ; Criminal and Civil Justice Policy Council ; Adams ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Rouson

Drug Court Programs; Specifies criteria considered before sentencing person to postadjudicatory treatment-based drug court program; provides for hearings on violations of probation or community control by program participants; requires circuit courts to report certain data relating to drug court programs; specifies that nonviolent offense is mitigating circumstance justifying departure from sentence if qualified defendant is amenable to drug court, etc.

Effective Date: 07/01/2009
Last Action: 5/2/2009 Senate - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration; Died in Messages, Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to CS/SB 1726 (Ch. 2009-64)
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Bill History

Date Chamber Action
4/8/2009 House • Filed; Referred to Criminal & Civil Justice Appropriations (CGHC); Full Appropriations Council on General Government & Health Care -HJ 00377
4/9/2009 House • Introduced -HJ 00377; On Committee agenda-- Criminal & Civil Justice Appropriations (CGHC), 04/13/09, 12:00 pm, 216-C
4/13/2009 House • CS by Criminal & Civil Justice Appropriations (CGHC); YEAS 8 NAYS 0 -HJ 00414
4/15/2009 House • CS read 1st time on 04/15/09 -HJ 00411; CS filed
4/17/2009 House • Referred to- Calendar -HJ 00486
4/23/2009 House • Placed on Special Order Calendar; Read 2nd time -HJ 00732
4/27/2009 House • Read 3rd time -HJ 00898; CS passed; YEAS 112 NAYS 0 -HJ 00898
4/27/2009 Senate • In Messages
5/2/2009 Senate • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration; Died in Messages, Link/Iden/Sim/Compare passed, refer to CS/SB 1726 (Ch. 2009-64)