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Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session

AB 980

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Relating to: creating a grant program for counties to use pretrial risk assessment tools, and making an appropriation. (FE)

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  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill creates a grant program, administered by the department of justice

(DOJ), in which grants are distributed to counties to incorporate into their pretrial

criminal procedure an evidence-based pretrial risk assessment tool. Under the bill,

in order to receive a grant, a county must identify an evidence-based pretrial risk

assessment tool it will use to assess persons charged with crimes in order to calculate

the persons' risk of flight or nonappearance and threat to community safety.

Counties that receive a grant must agree that prosecutors, judges, and court

commissioners will consider the information generated by the risk assessment tool

when setting cash bail amounts and terms of pretrial release. Additionally, counties

that receive a grant must provide information to DOJ regarding the use of the risk

assessment tool, including the number of persons screened and the amounts of cash

bail set and conditions of pretrial release established in each case. DOJ must analyze

the data submitted each year and prepare a progress report that evaluates the

effectiveness of the program. Every five years, DOJ must submit a report

summarizing the grant program and its effects to the legislature.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Barnes (D) , Berceau (D) , Bowen (D) , Brostoff (D) , Considine (D) , Goyke (D) , Johnson (D) , Kessler (D) , Spreitzer (D) , Zamarripa (D)

1 cosponsors

L. Taylor (D)

Full history

  1. Mar 10, 2016 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Goyke, Barnes, Bowen, Brostoff, Kessler, Berceau, Johnson, Spreitzer, Considine and Zamarripa; cosponsored by Senator L. Taylor

  2. Mar 10, 2016 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Apr 13, 2016 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1