Bill Text: HI SB2815 | 2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Parole.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-08 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading, as amended (SD 1) and referred to JDC. [SB2815 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2018-SB2815-Amended.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2018 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PAROLE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION
1. Section 353-70, Hawaii Revised
Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§353-70
Final discharge. Whenever, in
its opinion, any paroled prisoner has given such evidence as is deemed reliable
and trustworthy that the paroled prisoner will remain at liberty without
violating the law and that the paroled prisoner's final release is not
incompatible with the welfare of society, the Hawaii paroling authority may
grant the prisoner a written discharge from further liability under the
prisoner's sentence[.] unless the inmate is serving any portion of a
court-ordered mandatory minimum sentence or the inmate or paroled prisoner owes
restitution.
Any
paroled prisoner who has been on parole for at least five years [shall be
brought before] may have the prisoner's case administratively reviewed
by the paroling authority for purposes of consideration for final discharge
and, at the discretion of the authority, may be considered for a
recommendation for a complete pardon.
In the event the prisoner is not granted a final discharge and full
pardon, the paroled prisoner shall be brought before the paroling authority for
the aforementioned purposes annually
thereafter.
Any
person, who, while on parole, enters the military service of the United States,
may, upon the person's honorable discharge therefrom, petition the paroling
authority for a final discharge, and the paroling authority may consider the
honorable discharge as grounds for granting a final discharge from parole and
recommending to the governor a full pardon."
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2. Statutory material to be repealed is
bracketed and stricken. New statutory
material is underscored.
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3. This Act shall take effect upon its
approval.
Report Title:
Parole; Discharged Persons
Description:
Clarifies circumstances under which the Hawaii Paroling Authority may grant early discharges. Provides the paroling authority with discretion to consider final discharge in an administrative action and to consider complete pardons for paroled prisoners. (SD1)
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