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2023 SESSION
SB 842 Petition for modification of sentence; eligibility, procedures.
Introduced by: J. Chapman Petersen | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
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.
FULL TEXT
- 12/28/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103532D pdf | impact statement
- 02/03/23 Senate: Printed as engrossed 23103532D-E pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 12/28/22 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/11/23 23103532D
- 12/28/22 Senate: Referred to Committee on the Judiciary
- 01/25/23 Senate: Reported from Judiciary (8-Y 6-N)
- 01/25/23 Senate: Rereferred to Finance and Appropriations
- 02/01/23 Senate: Reported from Finance and Appropriations with amendments (13-Y 3-N)
- 02/02/23 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/03/23 Senate: Read second time
- 02/03/23 Senate: Reading of amendments waived
- 02/03/23 Senate: Committee amendments agreed to
- 02/03/23 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB842E
- 02/03/23 Senate: Printed as engrossed 23103532D-E
- 02/06/23 Senate: Read third time and passed Senate (24-Y 15-N)
- 02/09/23 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/09/23 House: Read first time
- 02/09/23 House: Referred to Committee for Courts of Justice
- 02/14/23 House: Assigned Courts sub: Subcommittee #1
- 02/15/23 House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (8-Y 0-N)
- 02/22/23 House: Left in Courts of Justice