HB17
Fines and costs; period of limitations on collection, responsibility for collections.
Status:
Passed
Latest Action:
March 14, 2026
Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
Chief Patron:
Cia Price (D)
Session:
2026 Regular Session
Summary
As Passed House of Origin. Fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, and restitution; collection fees; assessment against incarcerated defendant; deferred payment agreement.
Extends from 90 days without payment to 180 days without payment the period of delinquency necessary for an account to be included on the required monthly report of delinquent accounts made by the clerk of the circuit court and district court. The bill also provides that for any defendant sentenced ... (More) to an active term of incarceration and ordered to pay any fine, cost, forfeiture, or penalty related to the charge that such defendant is incarcerated for, or any other charges for which such defendant was sentenced on the same day, the court shall enter such defendant into a deferred payment agreement for such fines, costs, forfeitures, or penalties. The bill requires the due date for such deferred payment agreement to be set no earlier than the defendant's scheduled release from incarceration on the charges for which such defendant was sentenced on the same day. The bill has a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. (Less)-
Bill History
- 12/22/2025 - House: Prefiled and ordered printed; Offered 01-14-2026 26102055D
- 12/22/2025 - House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/20/2026 - House: Assigned HCJ sub: Criminal
- 01/20/2026 - House: Placed on Courts of Justice Agenda
- 01/21/2026 - House: House subcommittee offered
- 01/21/2026 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) and referring to Appropriations (9-Y 1-N)
- 01/27/2026 - House: Placed on Courts of Justice Agenda
- 01/28/2026 - House: Reported from Courts of Justice with amendment(s) and referred to Appropriations (16-Y 4-N)
- 01/28/2026 - House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 01/29/2026 - House: Assigned HAPP sub: General Government and Capital Outlay
- 01/29/2026 - House: Placed on Appropriations Agenda
- 01/30/2026 - House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 1-N)
- 02/02/2026 - House: Placed on Appropriations Agenda
- 02/02/2026 - House: Reported from Appropriations (17-Y 5-N)
- 02/04/2026 - House: Read first time
- 02/05/2026 - House: Read second time
- 02/05/2026 - House: committee amendments agreed to
- 02/05/2026 - House: Engrossed by House as amended
- 02/06/2026 - House: Read third time and passed House (66-Y 32-N 0-A)
- 02/06/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB17)
- 02/09/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 1st reading)
- 02/09/2026 - Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/25/2026 - Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice with substitute and rereferred to Finance and Appropriations (9-Y 6-N)
- 02/25/2026 - Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/27/2026 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 26108696D-S1
- 03/02/2026 - House: Fiscal Impact Statement from Department of Planning and Budget (HB17)
- 03/03/2026 - Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
- 03/03/2026 - Senate: Rules suspended
- 03/03/2026 - Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (on 2nd reading) (40-Y 0-N 0-A)
- 03/03/2026 - Senate: Passed by for the day (Voice Vote)
- 03/04/2026 - Senate: Committee substitute printed 26109052D-S2
- 03/04/2026 - Senate: Read third time
- 03/04/2026 - Senate: Courts of Justice Substitute rejected
- 03/04/2026 - Senate: Finance and Appropriations Substitute agreed to
- 03/04/2026 - Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute
- 03/04/2026 - Senate: Passed Senate with substitute (21-Y 19-N 0-A) Close Floor Vote
- 03/06/2026 - House: Senate substitute agreed to by House (65-Y 33-N 0-A) Close Floor Vote
- 03/13/2026 - House: Enrolled
- 03/13/2026 - House: Bill text as passed House and Senate (HB17ER)
- 03/13/2026 - House: Signed by Speaker
- 03/13/2026 - Senate: Signed by President
- 03/14/2026 - House: Enrolled Bill communicated to Governor on March 14, 2026
- 03/14/2026 - Governor's Action Deadline 11:59 p.m., April 13, 2026
