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FL S0338

Bill

Status

Failed

5/3/2019

Primary Sponsor

Criminal Justice

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Origin

Senate

2019 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Authorizes the Florida Department of Corrections to allow inmates to participate in supervised community release beginning 180 days before their provisional or tentative release date

  • Requires inmates on supervised community release to be under active electronic monitoring and community control, with eligibility determined through a risk assessment instrument

  • Permits law enforcement or probation officers to arrest inmates without a warrant if they violate terms of supervised community release, with violations reported to the supervising probation office or department's emergency action center

  • Allows inmates on supervised community release to continue earning or losing gain-time, but prohibits release before serving at least 85% of their sentence

  • Excludes inmates on supervised community release from being counted in prison population figures, and their community housing locations are not counted toward prison capacity

Legislative Description

Extension of Confinement

Last Action

Died in Appropriations

5/3/2019

Committee Referrals

Appropriations3/7/2019
Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice2/13/2019
Criminal Justice1/25/2019

Full Bill Text

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