The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard SB 445 on electronic monitoring standards sponsored by Rep. McNamara and Rep. Steuerwald. The bill was authored by Sen. Walker and Sen. Bohacek and makes various updates to the electronic monitoring language passed last year and authorizes the Justice Reinvestment Advisory Council to establish electronic monitoring standards and … [Read more...] about Electronic monitoring standards
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Home detention
The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee heard HB 1287 on home detention sponsored by Sen. Koch.The author, Rep. Meltzer,introduced the bill which allows a court to place a person convicted of certain crimes directly in a community corrections program, repeals the offense of unauthorized absence from home detention, a Class A misdemeanor, and repeals a provision … [Read more...] about Home detention
Credit time
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 … [Read more...] about Credit time
Crimes against public administration
The Senate Corrections and Criminal Law Committee heard SB 348 authored by Sen. Baldwin and Sen. Freeman on crimes against public administration. The bill initially proposed to create new criminal causes of action and increase penalties for existing causes of action for taking certain actions against a member of public administrations. The Committee took no testimony on this … [Read more...] about Crimes against public administration
Home detention
The House Courts and Criminal Code Committee heard HB 1287 on home detention authored by Rep. Meltzer. The bill does the following: The bill was amended by consent to make the noncriminal sections of the bill effective upon passage. The amendment also prohibits a court from ordering a person with certain non-suspendible sentences to serve the non-suspendible portion of the … [Read more...] about Home detention