House Bill 335 Summary

• Department of Public Safety must study potential benefits and costs of contracting for maintenance services at prison facilities and report findings to the 2013 General Assembly; prohibition on expanding private maintenance contracts to additional facilities without legislative authorization.

• Multiple clarifications to probation and sentencing laws effective December 1, 2011, including modifications to probation conditions, confinement periods for multiple judgments, and Active Sentence Reduction program procedures.

• Licensed bail bondsmen and sureties granted access to criminal court records maintained by the Administrative Office of the Courts for evaluating bail clients, with restrictions on use and immediate access revocation upon license suspension or revocation.

• Technical corrections to provisional driver's license statutes and repeal of certain provisions from prior legislation (S.L. 2011-313 and S.L. 2011-385).

• Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources authorized to grant waivers for additional connections to bond-funded water supply lines in protected watersheds when capacity exists and connections address public health threats or serve single-family residences.

• Home Inspector Licensure Board public member clarified to mean someone not "actively engaged" in professional categories covered by the board.