HB2380 Summary

• Allows the Board of Executive Clemency to grant medical parole to prisoners (except those sentenced to death or natural life) who have been examined by a licensed physician and diagnosed with an incapacitating physical condition that renders them unlikely to present a danger to public safety.

• Requires medical parole diagnosis to include determination of incapacitating physical condition, detailed description of the condition and physical incapacity, and prognosis regarding recovery likelihood.

• Prohibits medical parole grants sooner than one year before a prisoner's parole or earned release date unless the prisoner's condition is so serious they would not be expected to live more than one year.

• Permits the Board, Department of Corrections, prisoners, or specified family members to request medical parole in writing, and allows the Board to revoke medical parole if the prisoner's condition improves and poses a danger to public safety.

• Requires psychiatric or psychological evaluation for prisoners who have served 10 or more consecutive years before medical parole approval, and applies to all prisoners applying for medical parole on or after the law's effective date.