The Senate Appropriations Committee heard SB 286 authored by Sen. Freeman, Sen. Koch, and Sen. Bohacek on credit time. The Senate Committee on Courts and Criminal Code referred the bill to Appropriations. The bill provides that a habitual offender is not entitled to good time credit. The bill permits a person placed on pretrial home detention to earn accrued time and good time credit in the same manner as other persons on home detention but provides that specified misconduct will result in the deprivation of all accrued time earned on pretrial.
The bill was amended by consent to remove certain provisions regarding habitual offenders and good time credit and amends the sentencing guidelines for habitual offenders. The amended bill passed 11-2.
Read the bill at: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/senate/286