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2022 SESSION
SB 378 Petition for modification of sentence; eligibility, procedures.
Introduced by: J. Chapman Petersen | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:
Petition for modification of sentence; eligibility; procedures. Provides a petition process for a person serving a sentence for any conviction or a combination of any convictions who remains incarcerated in a state or local correctional facility and meets certain criteria to petition the circuit court that entered the original judgment or order to (i) suspend the unserved portion of such sentence or run the unserved portion of such sentence concurrently with another sentence, (ii) place such person on probation for such time as the court shall determine, or (iii) otherwise modify the sentence imposed.
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- 01/11/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22104101D
- 01/11/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 01/31/22 Senate: Assigned Judiciary sub: Criminal Law
- 02/07/22 Senate: Reported from Judiciary (9-Y 5-N)
- 02/07/22 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/10/22 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations (13-Y 2-N)
- 02/11/22 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/14/22 Senate: Read second time and engrossed
- 02/15/22 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 16-N)
- 02/15/22 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/22 Senate: Passed Senate (25-Y 15-N)
- 02/21/22 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/21/22 House: Read first time
- 02/21/22 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/27/22 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/28/22 House: Subcommittee recommends laying on the table (5-Y 3-N)
- 03/08/22 House: Left in Courts of Justice