{"id":704227,"date":"2010-03-29T18:10:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T22:10:13","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:50:53","slug":"sexting-bill-passes-judiciary-committee-bill-that-aimed-to-streamline-the-death-penalty-process-doesnt-get-a-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/704227","title":{"rendered":"Sexting Bill Passes Judiciary Committee; Bill That Aimed To Streamline The Death Penalty Process Doesn&#8217;t Get A Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <span lang=\"EN\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The legislature&#8217;s judiciary committee passed a bill that would lessen the penalty for sexting between two consenting minors Monday, but it chose not to act on several other high-profile bills.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Monday&#8217;s committee agenda listed over 75 bills, but lawmakers only voted on about half of them. Among the bills that were not addressed are the following: <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; A bill that would make it illegal for registered sex offenders to live within 2,000 feet of a public or private school or day care facility, House Bill No. 5486.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; A bill that would have shortened the post-conviction process in death penalty cases, House Bill No. 5445.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8211; A bill that would have increased the fines for those who violated school bus regulations. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to the sexting bill, the committee did pass a bill that would change the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits in child sexual abuse cases. <\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n        <span lang=\"EN\"><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Rep. Michael Lawlor, D-East Haven, co-chairman of the committee, said that the committee had a limited time to act on any bills and, as a result, it had to make choices. Committee members were polled and the bills were brought forward for debate if there was enough interest, he added. <\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The bills that were not voted on died in committee, but some could appear as amendments to bills that made the cut, Lawlor said.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legislature&#8217;s judiciary committee passed a bill that would lessen the penalty for sexting between two consenting minors Monday, but it chose not to act on several other high-profile bills. Monday&#8217;s committee agenda listed over 75 bills, but lawmakers only voted on about half of them. Among the bills that were not addressed are the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Xcv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805359,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704227\/revisions\/805359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}