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Requires the names and specified other information of child victims, child witnesses, and certain other persons to be redacted in criminal actions. Requires the use of an anonymous designator such as "Child Witness No. 1" when redacting a name, and prohibits redaction that uses the person's initials or that describes the person in terms of a family relationship.
Latest development · Mar 5, 2026
Signed by the Governor
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Signed by the Governor
Public Law 129
Signed by the Speaker
Signed by the President of the Senate
Signed by the President Pro Tempore
Senate concurred with House amendments; Roll Call 286: yeas 47, nays 0
Motion to concur filed
Returned to the Senate with amendments
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 269: yeas 88, nays 0
Amendment #1 (Bascom) prevailed; voice vote
Second reading: amended, ordered engrossed
Representative Isa added as cosponsor
Committee report: amend do pass, adopted
Representatives Ireland, Zimmerman added as cosponsors
First reading: referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code
Referred to the House
Senator Baldwin added as coauthor
Third reading: passed; Roll Call 39: yeas 46, nays 0
House sponsor: Representative Bascom
Second reading: ordered engrossed
Senators Pol, Koch, Clark, Glick added as coauthors
Senator Carrasco added as second author
Committee report: do pass, adopted
First reading: referred to Committee on Corrections and Criminal Law
Authored by Senator Freeman
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