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2009 SESSION

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SB 1540 Home/electronic incarceration; sentencing guidelines.

Introduced by: Kenneth W. Stolle | Janet D. Howell | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Home/electronic incarceration; risk assessment.  Provides that the risk assessment instrument developed by the Sentencing Commission shall be used to recommend sentencing alternatives for nonviolent offenders, with consideration being given to home/electronic incarceration for low-risk offenders meeting certain criteria.

FULL TEXT

• 01/23/09  Senate: Presented and ordered printed 091537328  pdf

HISTORY

• 01/23/09  Senate: Presented and ordered printed 091537328
• 01/23/09  Senate: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
• 01/27/09  Senate: Assigned Courts sub: Criminal
• 02/04/09  Senate: Reported from Courts of Justice (13-Y 1-N)
• 02/04/09  Senate: Rereferred to Finance
• 02/05/09  Senate: Reported from Finance (16-Y 0-N)
• 02/09/09  Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
• 02/10/09  Senate: Motion to recommit to committee agreed to
• 02/10/09  Senate: Recommitted to Finance
• 02/11/09  Senate: Left in Finance