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IN HB1034
Bill
Status
3/8/2018
Primary Sponsor
Matthew Lehman
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AI Summary
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Removes the mandatory minimum 60-day requirement for home detention periods ordered as a condition of probation, effective July 1, 2018
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Adds a new catch-all provision allowing courts to approve "any other activity" for offenders during home detention, beyond the previously specified exceptions like employment, education, and religious services
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Expands communication device requirements to include cellular telephones and other wireless or cellular communications devices, not just working landline telephones
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Maintains existing requirements that home detention cannot exceed minimum felony or maximum misdemeanor imprisonment terms for the offense committed
Legislative Description
Home detention matters. Eliminates the requirement that a period of home detention ordered as a condition of probation must be at least 60 days. Allows a court to approve activities for an offender that do not require the offender to be confined to the offender's home at all times. Provides that an offender must maintain a working telephone, cellular telephone, or other wireless or cellular communications device in the offender's home as a condition of being on home detention.
Last Action
Public Law 21
3/8/2018