HB 1540 - DIGEST

Allows a person, convicted of one or more crimes committed before his or her eighteenth birthday, to petition the indeterminate sentence review board for early release from sentences for those offenses.

Requires a person, convicted of aggravated first degree murder for an offense committed before his or her eighteenth birthday, to be sentenced to a range of total confinement with a maximum term and a minimum term.

Prohibits the maximum term from exceeding a life sentence, and the minimum term from exceeding twenty-five years. Sentences imposed under this act must be served concurrently with sentences imposed for any other current offenses.

Requires the court to take into account progress towards rehabilitation demonstrated by the youth following the commission of his or her crime.

Requires a return to sentencing court if a person, sentenced before the effective date of this act, is still incarcerated as of that effective date for a conviction of aggravated murder committed before his or her eighteenth birthday.