HB276

2026 Regular Session

HB276 by Representative Barbara Carpenter

BAIL: Authorizes a court to conduct a contradictory bail hearing prior to setting bail for a person in custody who is charged with certain sexually based offenses against a child under the age of eighteen

Current Status: Pending Senate Judiciary C

Text

House Floor Amendment #4949 Carpenter Adopted

House Committee Amendment #4651 ACRJ Adopted

Digest of HB276 Reengrossed

Digest of HB276 Engrossed

Digest of HB276 Original

House Vote on HB 276 FINAL PASSAGE (#872)

Barbara Carpenter (primary)

Date	Chamber	Journal Page	Action
05/07	S		Read second time by title and referred to the Committee on Judiciary C.
05/06	S		Received in the Senate. Read first time by title and placed on the Calendar for a second reading.
05/05	H	48	Read third time by title, amended, roll called on final passage, yeas 95, nays 1. Finally passed, title adopted, ordered to the Senate.
04/29	H		Scheduled for floor debate on 05/05/2026.
04/29	H	9	Read by title, amended, ordered engrossed, passed to 3rd reading.
04/28	H	44	Reported with amendments (11-0).
03/09	H	39	Read by title, under the rules, referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
02/27	H		First appeared in the Interim Calendar on 2/27/2026.
02/23	H		Under the rules, provisionally referred to the Committee on Administration of Criminal Justice.
02/23	H		Prefiled.