SB 2927 Summary

• Eliminates driver's license suspension for controlled substance violations unrelated to operating a motor vehicle and removes suspension for unpaid fines and fees related to traffic violations.

• Establishes risk and needs assessment-based conditions for probation and post-release supervision; reduces maximum probation and post-release supervision terms from five years to two years.

• Restricts parole and probation revocation to violations of mandatory conditions only and requires graduated sanctions before revocation requests; limits technical violation center sentences to 90-180 days depending on revocation number.

• Expands drug court eligibility and creates unified expunction statute allowing expunction of misdemeanor convictions for first offenders and felony convictions seven years after successful sentence completion; classifies first two simple drug possession convictions within ten years as misdemeanors.

• Excludes prior convictions more than ten years old from habitual offender sentencing enhancement and allows misdemeanor release on recognizance without bail under specified conditions.