Committee advances bill to make strangulation in domestic-violence cases a felony

Representative George presented House Bill 3264 and said the measure makes domestic violence by strangulation a felony (the presenter’s phrasing in the transcript was 'an 85% crime'). Members asked no substantive legal questions in the recorded discussion and the chair opened the voting queue. The clerk announced the vote in the transcript (the recorded numeric line is not readable as a standard tally), and the chair later said the committee would show the bill out as it does pass.

The transcript does not include the statutory text or the exact criminal classification language beyond the presenter’s summary. The committee advanced the bill by do-pass motion and the measure will move forward on the legislative calendar.