Bill Text: MS SB2461 | 2020 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Medical and geriatric prison release; revise authority of MDOC and MS Parole Board.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-03-12 - Failed [SB2461 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2020-SB2461-Comm_Sub.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2020 Regular Session
To: Corrections
By: Senator(s) Simmons (12th)
Senate Bill 2461
(COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-7-4, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REVISE THE AUTHORITY OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TO PLACE AN OFFENDER ON CONDITIONAL MEDICAL RELEASE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 47-7-4, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
47-7-4. The commissioner
and the medical director of the department may place an offender who has served
not less than one (1) year of his or her sentence * * *
on conditional medical release. However, a nonviolent offender who is
bedridden or has a long-term debilitating medical condition may be
placed on conditional medical release regardless of the time served on his or
her sentence. Upon the release of a nonviolent offender who is bedridden, the
state shall not be responsible or liable for any medical costs that may be
incurred if such costs are acquired after the offender is no longer
incarcerated due to his or her placement on conditional medical release. The
commissioner shall not place an offender on conditional medical release unless
the medical director of the department certifies to the commissioner that (a)
the offender is suffering from a * * * long-term
debilitating medical condition * * *; (b) that his
or her further incarceration will serve no rehabilitative purposes; and (c)
that the state would incur unreasonable expenses as a result of his or her
continued incarceration. Any offender placed on conditional medical release
shall be supervised by the Division of Community Corrections of the department
for the remainder of his or her sentence and may be placed in the Intensive
Supervision Program as provided in Section 47-5-1001 et seq. An offender's
conditional medical release may be revoked and the offender returned and placed
in actual custody of the department if the offender violates an order or
condition of his or her conditional medical release. An offender who is no
longer bedridden or suffering from a long-term debilitating medical
condition shall be returned and placed in the actual custody of the
department.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1, 2020.
