Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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Fiscal Summary OTHER FISCAL IMPACT The proposed legislation may decrease incarceration expenditures; however, the exact decrease in incarceration expenditures cannot be determined with reasonable certainty. Bill Summary Present law prohibits release eligibility for a person committing first degree murder, on or after July 1, 1995, and receiving a sentence of imprisonment for life. This bill establishes that a person committing first degree murder on or after July 1, 1995, and before July 1, 2020, and receiving a sentence of imprisonment for life is eligible for parole after serving 25 calendar years if the person fulfills the following criteria, with the maximum sentence reduction not to exceed 35 years: 10 years must be deducted from the inmate's parole eligibility date for each sustained period of 10 consecutive years without a Class A violent disciplinary infraction. A Class A violent disciplinary infraction is either (i) assault on staff with or without a weapon; (ii) assault on another offender with or without a weapon; (iii) threatening staff or another offender; (iv) murder or attempted murder of staff or another offender; and (v) rape or attempted rape of staff or another offender. If a Class A violent disciplinary infraction occurs after a 10-year period of good conduct, then the previously accrued credit for avoiding a Class A violent disciplinary infraction is forfeited, and a new 10-year period of good conduct must be completed to regain eligibility for this credit. 10 years must be deducted from the inmate's parole eligibility date for each sustained period of 10 consecutive years without a drug-related disciplinary infraction. A drug-related disciplinary infraction is (i) possession or usage of an unauthorized Schedule I or Schedule II controlled substance or (ii) sale or distribution of a Schedule I or Sche
