1128-S AMS BENT MOOR 050

SHB 1128 - S AMD to S COMM AMD (S-3134.3) 328

   By    Senator Benton

NOT ADOPTED 3/31/2007

   On page 93, after line 7, insert the following:

   "(g) Within the funds appropriated in this subsection and limited to the 2007-09 fiscal biennium, the department shall implement the following policy: If an offender or probationer on community supervision as a result of earned early release commits the same crime for which the offender or probationer was originally committed to the department, the department shall return the offender or probationer to total confinement for the remainder of the offender or probationer's original sentence."

   Renumber the sections consecutively and correct any internal references accordingly.

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EFFECT: Requires the Department of Corrections adopt a policy under which if an offender on community supervision as a result of earned early release commits the same crime for which the offender was originally committed to the department, the department shall return the offender to total confinement for the remainder of the offender's original sentence.