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2022 SESSION
HB 735 Earned sentence credits; repeals four-level classification system for awarding & calculation, etc.
Introduced by: Robert B. Bell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Department of Corrections; earned sentence credits. Repeals the four-level classification system for the awarding and calculation of earned sentence credits currently set to go into effect on July 1, 2022. Under current law, a maximum of 4.5 sentence credits may be earned for each 30 days served.
FULL TEXT
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100841D pdf | impact statements
- 02/28/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22107093D-S1 pdf
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/11/22 House: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22100841D
- 01/11/22 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 01/29/22 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 01/31/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/07/22 House: Reported from Courts of Justice (11-Y 9-N)
- 02/07/22 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/08/22 House: Assigned App. sub: Transportation & Public Safety
- 02/09/22 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting (5-Y 3-N)
- 02/09/22 House: Reported from Appropriations (12-Y 10-N)
- 02/11/22 House: Read first time
- 02/14/22 House: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/15/22 House: Read third time and passed House (51-Y 49-N)
- 02/15/22 House: VOTE: Passage (51-Y 49-N)
- 02/16/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed
- 02/16/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services
- 02/25/22 Senate: Rereferred from Rehabilitation and Social Services (8-Y 5-N)
- 02/25/22 Senate: Rereferred to Judiciary
- 02/28/22 Senate: Reported from Judiciary with substitute (10-Y 5-N)
- 02/28/22 Senate: Committee substitute printed 22107093D-S1
- 02/28/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 03/03/22 Senate: Passed by indefinitely in Finance and Appropriations (11-Y 4-N)