Public hearings Monday

The state’s Criminal Justice committee will hear public testimony on the following bills Monday at 9:30 a.m. in Room 436 of the State House in Augusta.

L.D. 1749: An act to create indeterminate sentencing and a forensic review board for repeat sexual assault offenders and sexually violent offenders

L.D. 192: A resolve to make the registry easier to read by making a map available

L.D. 195: An act to require licensed child care providers to be notified when a sex offender moves to town

L.D. 294: An act to require the posting of an updated list of registered offenders at the local police department or town hall

L.D. 446: An act to look at the registry and create a tiered system for sex offenders

L.D. 518: An act to notify all school personnel of sex offenders living in the district

L.D. 1391: An act to focus the sex offender registry Web site on the most dangerous offenders

L.D. 1534: An act to revisit the types of sex offenses that require an offender to register with the state

L.D. 1752: An act to clarify that a person may not seek post-conviction review of a violation of the sex offender registration requirements

Bills waiting for floor action

The House and Senate will vote on the following bills in the coming month.

LD 46: An act to establish a 25-year minimum sentence for offenders convicted of gross sexual assault against a victim younger than 12

L.D. 372: An act to add the element of furnishing drugs or intoxicants to a victim to the gross sexual assault law

Bills not yet out of committee

The committee will work on these bills in the coming weeks.

LD 45: An act to create a lifetime restraining order for convicted sex offenders to protect victims

LD 147: An act to require probation officers to approve a sex offender’s residence

LD 191: An act to prevent sex offenders whose victim was under age 12 from having contact with children under 14 after conviction

LD 351: An act requiring municipalities to create safe zones for children, and any offense committed within that zone would receive aggravated sentencing

LD 423: An act to establish guidelines as to where an offender can live, and establish restraining orders to protect victims

LD 815: An act to prevent registered sex offenders from living in a municipality without a local police department

LD 1229: An act to bar sex offenders from hanging around schools

LD 1491: An act to create child-safe zones, where an offender may not frequent, and also require all high-risk offenders to be electronically monitored

L.D. 1736: An act to amend the laws relating to probation and supervised release for sex offenders

L.D. 1807: An act to prevent sex offenders from living together

Bills that have died

L.D. 238: An act to require the state to submit DNA samples of sex offenders to the national DNA registry

L.D. 1384: An act to rename the crimes “gross sexual assault” and “sexual abuse of a minor” to “rape” and “child molestation”

L.D. 1490: An act to reduce the amount of good time that may be awarded to certain offenders

L.D. 1589: An act to prohibit use of opposite-gender bathrooms, changing rooms and locker rooms; gender defined as what a person was at birth