By January 10, 2026, Jesse’s Law existed as a Senate docket and a House docket, sitting in the early stages of the legislative process. The bills were under review by Rules Committees, waiting to be admitted and assigned permanent bill numbers.
From the outside, this part can look quiet. There are no dramatic hearings yet, no floor votes, no big headlines. But this is still real progress. Two years earlier, Jesse’s name was only in police reports and our nightmares. Now it is in the Legislature’s system, attached to a clear proposal to change the law.
During this phase, public support matters just as much as it did on the first day of the petition. Calls and emails to legislators, signatures on the petition, and conversations in communities all help push Jesse’s Law toward the next step. We are still asking for help, and we are not done.