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MS SB2722
Bill
AI Summary
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Amends Section 47-7-4 of Mississippi Code to clarify that offenders on conditional medical release are responsible for all medical costs incurred after release from incarceration.
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Removes language referencing the medical director of the Department of Corrections from the conditional medical release authorization process.
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Maintains existing eligibility requirements: offenders must have served at least one year of sentence (except nonviolent, terminally ill offenders exempt from time-served requirement) and cannot have been convicted of sex crimes.
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Preserves requirement that Department of Corrections certify offender has significant permanent physical condition with no recovery possibility, incarceration serves no rehabilitative purpose, and continued incarceration would incur unreasonable expenses.
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Retains supervision by Division of Community Corrections for remainder of sentence and allows revocation of conditional medical release for violation of release conditions.
Legislative Description
Corrections; require all offenders on conditional medical release to be responsible for medical costs.
Last Action
Died In Committee
2/1/2011