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IN SB0139
Bill
Status
1/6/2015
Primary Sponsor
Lonnie Randolph
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AI Summary
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Amends IC 11-13-3-2 regarding parole eligibility for offenders sentenced under laws other than the 1976 criminal code.
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Creates parole eligibility exception for persons sentenced to multiple life sentences if at least one felony conviction is for kidnapping.
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Persons with multiple life sentences are generally ineligible for parole consideration, but this prohibition does not apply if one conviction involves kidnapping.
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Effective July 1, 2015.
Legislative Description
Parole eligibility for certain offenders. Provides that a person is eligible for consideration for release on parole if, before the criminal code was enacted in 1976: (1) the person was sentenced to more than one term of life imprisonment without parole upon conviction of more than one felony; and (2) at least one of the person's felony convictions was for kidnapping.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Corrections & Criminal Law
1/6/2015