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Senate Judiciary advanced SB26-115, a 'second look' measure letting judges reconsider long sentences for people incarcerated as youths or now elderly, on a narrow 4-3 vote that scrambled party lines before sending it to Appropriations.
Key Actions
·Post-Conviction Relief for Certain OffendersPassed
Notable Quotes
“115 invites us to grapple with, I think, some of the absolutely most fundamental things that we can possibly grapple with in this committee and in criminal legal system policy. How much punishment is enough?”
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Votes
Referred to Committee on AppropriationsAction
Yes (4)Julie Gonzales, Nick Hinrichsen, Katie Wallace, Mike Weissman
No (3)John Carson, Lynda Zamora Wilson, Dylan Roberts
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It. Good afternoon, everyone. The Senate Judiciary Committee will please come to order on Wednesday 25th February. Ms. Jensen, please start us off with a roll. Senators Carson. Present. Gonzalez. Present. Henriksen. President Wallace. Present. Zamora Wilson. Present. Roberts. Excused. Mr. Chair. Present. All right, we have a quorum. Senator Roberts is presently presenting a bill in another committee. He will join us as soon as he's done in that other committee. Also, Senator Wallace has advised me that she will need to present a bill in committee as well or into the session far enough that this kind of overlap is unavoidable. So if you see members coming in and out as we work through the bill hearing this afternoon, that is why the one item on our agenda is Senate Bill 115. I will be joining Senator Gonzales at the table to present the bill in just a moment. For that reason, Senator Henrickson will be chairing the hearing for bill today. We'll follow the usual provisions. Witnesses will have three minutes to testify. We'll alternate a little bit. We'll hear from some supportive witnesses first and then some opposition, then more support, then more opposition, then more…
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