Pennsylvania House Bill 2566 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-1)
Status: Introduced on August 9 2012 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-08-09 - Referred to JUDICIARY
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

An Act establishing the Pennsylvania Criminal Justice Commission as a subcommission under the Commission on Crime and Delinquency to review the Commonwealth's entire criminal justice system within an 18-month period, to propose concrete, wide-ranging reforms designed to responsibly reduce the overall incarceration rate, to improve State and local responses to international and domestic gang violence, to restructure our approach to drug policy, to improve the treatment of mental illness, to improve prison administration and to establish a system for reintegrating ex-offenders.

Establishing the Pennsylvania Criminal Justice Commission as a subcommission under the Commission on Crime and Delinquency to review the Commonwealth's entire criminal justice system within an 18-month period, to propose concrete, wide-ranging reforms designed to responsibly reduce the overall incarceration rate, to improve State and local responses to international and domestic gang violence, to restructure our approach to drug policy, to improve the treatment of mental illness, to improve prison administration and to establish a system for reintegrating ex-offenders.

Rep. Louise Bishop [D]	Rep. Mark Cohen [D]	Rep. Peter Daley [D]	Rep. Florindo Fabrizio [D]
Rep. Harold James [D]	Rep. Babette Josephs [D]	Rep. William Kortz [D]	Rep. Thomas Murt [R]
Rep. Cherelle Parker [D]	Rep. Tony Payton [D]	Sen. John Sabatina [D]	Rep. Curtis Thomas [D]
Rep. Ronald Waters [D]	Rep. Jewell Williams [D]	Rep. Michelle Brownlee [D]	Rep. Vanessa Brown [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-08-09	House	Referred to JUDICIARY

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/billinfo/bill_history.cfm?syear=2011&sind=0&body=H&type=B&bn=2566
Text	https://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=HTM&sessYr=2011&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=2566&pn=3936