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2024 SESSION
SB 476 Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses, concurrent and consecutive sentences.
Introduced by: Mark J. Peake | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Earned sentence credits; inchoate offenses; concurrent and consecutive sentences. Provides that a person who is convicted of an inchoate offense will earn sentence credits at the same rate as someone who is convicted of the completed offense for certain enumerated offenses. The bill also specifies that the provision in current law providing that a person who has been convicted of certain enumerated offenses may earn a maximum of 4.5 sentence credits for each 30 days served on any sentence for such offenses also applies to any other sentence that is to be served concurrent with or consecutive to any such sentence. The bill also clarifies that the provisions regarding the earning of credits for concurrent and consecutive sentences apply retroactively.
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HISTORY
- 01/09/24 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/24 24104444D
- 01/09/24 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 01/26/24 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 7-N)