CS for CS for SB 790 - Probation and Community Control

• Redefines "administrative probation" as a no-contact, nonreporting form of supervision and removes the "community residential drug punishment center" definition from statutes.

• Changes Department of Corrections duties from developing and disseminating uniform supervision forms to revising and making them available to courts by July 1 annually.

• Replaces terminology of "parole and probation supervisors" and "correctional probation officers" with "probation officers" throughout probation and community control statutes.

• Modifies community control program requirements to focus on home confinement with limited freedom rather than sanctions and consequences, and increases maximum caseloads from 25 to 30 cases per officer.

• Changes education requirements from mandatory to optional for offenders to make good faith efforts toward high school diploma or literacy skills, and eliminates certain residential treatment facility options as conditions of probation; effective July 1, 2017.