SB 5848-S - DIGEST
(DIGEST OF PROPOSED 1ST SUBSTITUTE)

Requires multiple terms of community custody run concurrent, unless the courts expressly order terms be served consecutively, regardless of how the term of confinement is ordered.

Allows sanctions for low-level violations to be non-confinement sanctions when appropriate, or not more than three days in custody.

Removes requirements for thirty days of sanction time for underlying twenty-one designation cases.

Changes the allowable amount of earned time on a sentence from a maximum of thirty-three percent to a maximum of fifty percent, if the offense was not classified as a violent, sex, or crime against a person offense.

Adds an entitlement to a resentencing hearing for offenders who were sentenced for a drug offense committed before July 1, 2004, and are currently serving a term of incarceration for that drug offense.