No. HB 61
Filed under Criminal Justice.
Objective Parole Guidelines; Provides additional requirements for objective parole guidelines; requires specified statistical analysis to be provided to Legislature.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDThe bill adds a new criterion for parole decisions. It requires guidelines to identify an inmate's use of vocation, education, and self-betterment programs.
It changes the commission's duty regarding consecutive sentences. The commission must now explicitly not aggravate or aggregate each consecutive sentence when setting release dates.
It shifts the treatment of certain scoring factors. Factors used for salient factor scores may now be applied as aggravating circumstances, rather than being strictly prohibited.
It creates a new reporting requirement. The commission must provide its annual statistical analysis of parole actions to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House.
AIAdds a new requirement that parole guidelines must identify inmate program participation.
AIExplicitly forbids the commission from using consecutive sentences to delay parole release.
AIChanges a mandatory prohibition into a discretionary one for using specific factors as aggravators.
AIRequires the commission to send its annual statistical analysis to legislative leadership.