Bill Text: IN SB0415 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Discharge of long term inmates; credit time.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-03-25 - Effective 07/01/2010 [SB0415 Detail]

Download: Indiana-2010-SB0415-Amended.html

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January 29, 2010

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SENATE BILL No. 415

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DIGEST OF SB 415 (Updated January 26, 2010 1:30 pm - DI 106)

Citations Affected: IC 11-13.

Synopsis: Discharge of long term inmates. Provides that an inmate is eligible for rehabilitation based discharge for long term inmates if the inmate has served 21 years in the department of correction and has received four years of credit time.

Effective: July 1, 2009.

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Waterman

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    January 14, 2010, read first time and referred to Committee on Corrections, Criminal, and Civil Matters.
    January 28, 2010, reported favorably _ Do Pass.

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January 29, 2010

Second Regular Session 116th General Assembly (2010)

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SENATE BILL No. 415

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    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 11-13-9-2; (10)SB0415.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 11-13-9-2, AS ADDED BY P.L.119-2008, SECTION 11, IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2009]: Sec. 2. Notwithstanding any other law, as soon as practicable after an inmate has been confined to the custody of the department for twenty-five (25) consecutive years, or twenty-one (21) years if the inmate has received four (4) years of credit time under IC 35-50-6, the department shall:
        (1) identify the inmate to the parole board; and
        (2) provide the parole board with the inmate's offender progress report.

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