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1994 SESSION
HB 178 SHOCAP.
Introduced by: R. Creigh Deeds | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY:
SHOCAP. Limits habitual juvenile's entrance into Serious or Habitual Offender Comprehensive Action Programs to three felonies or Class 1 misdemeanors that are committed during a three-year period. Current law does not have this time period limitation. The serious offender's entrance is unchanged (i.e., delinquent adjudication or conviction of murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, felony sexual assault, or malicious wounding). The bill makes supervisory authority over serious or habitual juvenile offenders discretionary, not mandatory, with the SHOCAP committee and allows localities to establish a multijurisdictional SHOCAP committee. The Department of Criminal Justice Services is directed to promulgate regulations governing the operation of the programs and to provide technical assistance to the localities in establishing the programs. The bill clarifies that the confidentiality provisions of the Code, and any regulations promulgated thereunder, are applicable to the sharing of information between and among SHOCAP committees as many of these provisions and regulations are a mirror of confidentiality protections under federal law.
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HISTORY
- 01/14/94 House: Presented and ordered printed
- 01/14/94 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/20/94 House: Assigned to C. J. sub-committee: 2
- 02/17/94 House: No action taken by Courts of Justice by voice vote