Judiciary committee approves minor wording edit to bill 410’s recidivism calculation

The House Judiciary Committee on April 17 reviewed bill 410, a measure defining recidivism for criminology purposes, and approved a minor drafting edit to clarify the statutory language.

Legislative counsel pointed out the phrase "clock for calculating recidivism" came from an external drafting source and proposed replacing it with "recidivism calculation shall begin" to make the sentence read more cleanly. The committee accepted the wording change as a technical edit; no substantive policy change or vote count was recorded in the transcript.

Committee members indicated they did not expect further changes to bill 410 at this meeting. The change was presented as editorial clarification to ensure the statute clearly identifies the start date for measuring recidivism (either release from incarceration or sentence to a non‑custodial sentence).