Florida House Bill 785 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Failed on April 28 2015 - 100% progression
Action: 2015-04-28 - Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Requires DOC to consider needs of inmates older than 50 years of age & adopt health care standards for that population; provides for supervised conditional elderly release program; provides criteria for program eligibility; authorizes arrest of inmate who has been released under supervised conditional elderly release program; defines "elderly & infirm inmate"; permits inmates 65 and over to serve less than 85% of their sentences if they receive certain forms of release & requires them to serve a lower minimum percentage of their sentences; expands eligibility for conditional medical release to include elderly & infirm inmates.

Aged Prison Inmates

Rep. Katie Edwards [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-04-28	House	Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
2015-03-03	House	Introduced
2015-02-26	House	Referred to Criminal Justice Subcommittee; Justice Appropriations Subcommittee; Judiciary Committee
2015-02-17	House	Filed

S7020 (Similar To) 2015-04-29 - Died in returning Messages

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
921	002		Amended Code	See Bill Text
945	6034		Amended Code	See Bill Text
947	141		Amended Code	See Bill Text
947	148		Amended Code	See Bill Text
947	149		Amended Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/785
Text	http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2015/0785/BillText/Filed/PDF