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FL H0115
Bill
Status
Failed
5/5/2023
Primary Sponsor
Dianne Hart-Lowman
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AI Summary
- Revises the Criminal Punishment Code's legislative intent to establish rehabilitation as a co-equal purpose of sentencing alongside punishment, removing language that subordinated rehabilitation to punishment
- Reduces the minimum percentage of a sentence that must be served before release from 85% to 65%, allowing greater sentence reductions through gain-time and credits
- Replaces the existing gain-time system with three new categories: "outstanding deed gain-time" (30–60 days per deed), "good behavior time" (10 days per month), and "rehabilitation credits" (up to 20–25 days per month depending on offense date)
- Requires the Department of Corrections to grant 60 days of rehabilitation credits for completing a high school equivalency diploma, college degree, vocational certificate, drug treatment program, mental health program, life skills program, reentry program, or equivalent; and 5 additional days for completing other approved programs or passing educational courses, applied retroactively
- Adds 2 additional days per month of good behavior time for prisoners serving sentences for drug offenses under ss. 893.13 and 893.135, applied retroactively, and makes good behavior time vest (become non-forfeitable) 2 years after being granted
Legislative Description
Criminal Rehabilitation
Last Action
Died in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
5/5/2023
Committee Referrals
Criminal Justice Subcommittee1/10/2023
Full Bill Text
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