S449 - Continuing Budget Operations Part IV. (SL 2025-97)

Overview: Section 5.3 of S.L. 2025-97 (Senate Bill 449) makes various technical corrections to S.L. 2025-93 (House Bill 307), including the following:

• Makes a conforming change to clarify that a criminal defendant's three or more convictions must have occurred in separate sessions of court for the provision requiring secured bond or house arrest as a condition of pretrial release to apply. 
• Changes the effective date for a provision that requires judicial officials to conduct new involuntary commitment procedures from December 1, 2025, to December 1, 2026.  

This section became effective October 22, 2025.