H.E.A. 1287, P.L. 72
Effective: §§1-11, 13, 14 effective April 20, 2023; §§12, 15 effective July 1, 2023
- Allows a court to place a person convicted of certain crimes directly in a community corrections program.
- Provides that a violation of certain terms of a community corrections program placement constitutes escape.
- Repeals the offense of unauthorized absence from home detention, a Class A misdemeanor.
- Repeals a provision that requires the court to suspend a period of an individual’s sentence if placed in a community corrections program.
- §12 provides that if a person on home detention knowingly and intentionally: (1) leaves the person’s home; (2) remains outside of the person’s home; or (3) travels to an unauthorized location; in violation of the home detention order and without written permission commits escape, a Level 6 felony.
- §15 provides that the court may not suspend the minimum sentence for a Level 3 felony if the person has a juvenile adjudication for certain offenses committed within three years of the commission of the Level 3 felony.
- Specifies that a person sentenced to work release in a community corrections program receives one day of accrued time for each day the person is confined on work release. (Current law only specifies that a person on home detention earns accrued time.)
Read the bill at: https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2023/bills/house/1287