Issue Position: Crime

Issue Position

# HB 195 (1996 Regular Session) Increased Supplemental Pay from $174.00 to $278 dollars per month ..... Voted For

# HB 182 (1997 Regular Session) Increase penalties for the production and manufacturing of cocaine to life imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence .....Voted For

# HB 11 (1997 Regular Session) Provided that a person breaking into a car is a circumstance making homicide justifiable ("shoot the car jacker").... Voted For

# HB 1646 (1997 Regular Session) Provided that inmates sentenced to life in prison cannot apply for pardon or commutation of sentence for 15 years after initial sentencing... Voted For

# HB 2224 (1999 Regular Session) Includes the killing of a person on school property within the definition of First Degree Murder (School Shootings) ..... Voted For

# HB 176 (1999 Regular Session) Increased the penalties for the crime of armed robbery from 5 years to 10 years .....Voted For

# SB 217 (1999 Regular Session) Abolishes the automatic pardon for a first offenders for violent crimes .....Voted For

# SB 294 (1999 Regular Session) Attempted to increase police supplemental pay to $500.00 per month (passed the House failed in the Senate) .....Voted For

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