Modifies provisions relating to the sentencing of persons under nineteen years of age

Summary

HB 1620 changes Missouri’s sentencing rules for people who were under 19 when they committed a crime. It allows certain inmates serving life without parole to petition for parole after 25 years, and adds a second petition after 35 years for some first‑degree murderers. The measure also sets new factors for parole hearings and stricter requirements for imposing life without parole on juveniles, but it did not pass.

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