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Drug Treatment as Parole Condition |
SB |
311 |
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ANALYST |
Reynolds-Forte |
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(Parenthesis
( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Duplicates HB256
LFC Files
Responses
Received From
Corrections Department
Administrative Office of the Courts
Attorney General’s Office
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
Senate Bill 311 proposes to provide the parole
board with express authority to refer certain parole violators to alcohol or
drug treatment programs as a new condition of parole. If the parole board determines that the
parole violator violated a condition of his release by using alcohol or drugs,
the board may refer the parole violator to an alcohol or drug treatment program
as a new condition of his release.
Significant
Issues:
The current law states that if it is determined
that the prisoner violated a condition of his parole, the parole board may
revoke the parole or “enter any other order as it sees fit.” Current law would already allow what the
proposed language sets forth.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
Senate Bill 311 should
have little if any fiscal impact. The
practice of referring parole violators to drug treatment programs as a part of
a parole plan is already being done.
TECHNICAL ISSUES
The Administrative
Office of the Courts points out that page 1, line 22 of the bill deletes the
words “any of” so that new language would read the “director may issue a
warrant for the arrest of the released prisoner for violation of conditions of release versus current language which
says the “director may issue a warrant for “violation of any of the conditions”. This
language change could be read as requiring multiple conditions to be violated
before issuing an arrest warrant.
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS
What was the purpose of the technical change that was made on page 1,
line 22?
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