04/03/2012 09:00 AM Senate FINANCE

CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 151(JUD)                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                
     "An  Act  relating to  mitigation  at  sentencing in  a                                                                    
     criminal case  for a  defendant found  by the  court to                                                                    
     have  been   affected  by  a  fetal   alcohol  spectrum                                                                    
     disorder."                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                
9:25:20 AM                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                
CHRISTINE  MARASIGAN, STAFF,  SENATOR  KEVIN MEYER,  related                                                                    
that Senator  Meyer was attending a  State Affairs Committee                                                                    
meeting and that  he sent his regrets for  being absent. She                                                                    
explained  that  SB  151  provided  Fetal  Alcohol  Spectrum                                                                    
Disorder as  a mitigating factor during  sentencing and that                                                                    
it  allowed judges  to have  more  flexibility when  dealing                                                                    
with offenders who had a brain dysfunction.                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair Stedman discussed the fiscal notes in the packet.                                                                      
                                                                                                                                
Co-Chair  Hoffman  MOVED  to report  CSSB  151(JUD)  out  of                                                                    
committee   with   individual    recommendations   and   the                                                                    
accompanying fiscal notes. There  being NO OBJECTION, it was                                                                    
so ordered.                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                
CSSB  151(JUD) was  REPORTED  out of  committee  with a  "do                                                                    
pass"  recommendation and  with a  new indeterminate  fiscal                                                                    
note  from the  Department of  Law and  previously published                                                                    
zero fiscal notes: FN2 (CRT), FN3 (DOA), FN4 (DOC).