Under current law, the court is required to release a person charged with a class 3 misdemeanor, petty offense, or unclassified offense on a personal recognizance bond unless certain conditions exist. The bill removes petty offenses from that requirement. The bill prohibits a court from imposing a monetary condition of release for a defendant charged with a traffic offense, petty offense, or municipal offense, except for a traffic offense involving death or bodily injury, eluding a police officer, circumventing an interlock device, or a municipal offense with substantially similar elements to a state misdemeanor offense. The bill does not prohibit a defendant's release based on a pretrial policy that includes monetary conditions if the defendant is informed that he or she would be released without monetary conditions if he or she waits for a bond hearing. The bill does not prohibit issuance of a warrant with monetary conditions of bond for a defendant who fails to appear in court as required or who violates a condition of release.
Year
2019
Current status
- Governor Signed (04/25/2019)
- Senate Third Reading Passed - No Amendments (04/08/2019)
- Senate Second Reading Special Order - Passed - No Amendments (04/05/2019)
- Introduced In Senate - Assigned to Judiciary (03/26/2019)
- House Third Reading Passed - No Amendments (03/22/2019)
- House Committee on Judiciary Refer Amended to House Committee of the Whole (03/14/2019)
