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HB1061 Establishing a commission to study alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders who are primary caregivers.

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Establishing a commission to study alternatives to incarceration for nonviolent offenders who are primary caregivers.

Impact Score — How Does This Bill Affect You?

7

Overall Impact Score

Mixed

Scale: 1 (harmful) to 10 (beneficial)

7
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Your Wallet

Alternatives to incarceration cost far less than prison ($40k+/year per inmate) and keeping families together reduces foster care costs and long-term social service expenses.

7
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Your Community

Keeping nonviolent offending parents with their children reduces childhood trauma, foster care placements, and generational cycles of criminal justice involvement.

6
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Your Freedom

Explores less restrictive punishments for nonviolent offenders, preserving family bonds while still holding people accountable.

Status

Indefinitely Postpone (Rep. Sweeney): Motion Adopted Regular Calendar 188-149 03/12/2026 House Journal 7

Voted Yes

0 R

Voted No

0 R

R Yes D Yes R No D No

Sponsor

Alissandra Murray (D)

The Short Version

Would create a commission to study alternatives to prison for nonviolent offenders who are primary caregivers of children. When parents are incarcerated, children often end up in foster care, creating cycles of harm and costing taxpayers significantly.

Who's Behind This Bill?

Who Benefits

  • ▲ Children of incarcerated parents
  • ▲ Nonviolent offenders who are caregivers
  • ▲ Taxpayers (reduced prison costs)

Who Pays the Price

  • ▼ Those who favor stricter sentencing regardless of circumstances

Roll Call Detail (1 vote)

Every recorded floor vote on this bill, with each legislator's individual vote. Click a name to see that rep's full record.

Who actually supports this bill?

Across the 1 recorded vote on this bill — counting each legislator's net direction and treating kill motions as opposing the bill — Republicans opposed it ( 2 for , 186 against ) , and Democrats supported it ( 147 for , 2 against ) .

"Supporting" means voting for passage OR voting against a kill motion. "Opposing" is the inverse. Concurs and amendment-only votes don't count.

Indefinitely Postpone 2026-03-11
Passed

YES = Kill the bill. NO = Keep the bill alive.

186R + 2D
Voted to Kill the Bill (188)
2R + 147D
Voted to Keep It Alive (149)
33
Absent
22
Not voting
Show all 392 individual votes

Voted Yea (188)

Republicans (186)
Democrats (2)

Voted Nay (149)

Republicans (2)
Democrats (147)
Absent (33)

Catherine Sofikitis (D) , Charlie St. Clair (D) , Cindy Bennett (R) , Dale Girard (D) , Dale Swanson (D) , David Love (R) , David Lundgren (R) , Denise DeDe-Poulin (R) , Dick Thackston (R) , Gaby Grossman (D) , Geoff Smith (D) , Gregory Sargent (D) , Jaci Grote (D) , James Gruber (D) , Jay Markell (R) , Jeanine Notter (R) , John Janigian (R) , Jonathan Smith (R) , Jose Cambrils (R) , Marc Plamondon (D) , Mark Warden (R) , Mary Ford (R) , Matthew Hicks (D) , Molly Howard (D) , Myles England (D) , Patricia Cornell (D) , Peggy Balboni (D) , Peter Lovett (D) , Peter Varney (R) , Ron Dunn (R) , Thomas Buco (D) , Tim Mannion (R) , Tom Dolan (R)

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