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2015 Regular Session

Senate Bill 1129

AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PILOT PROGRAM TO IDENTIFY AND TRACK THE HOMELESS, ADDICTED OR MENTALLY ILL PERSONS ENTERING THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND CONCERNING THE EARNED RISK REDUCTION CREDIT PROGRAM.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on March 27, 2015. The 2015 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To create a pilot program to identify and track the homeless, addicted or mentally ill persons entering the criminal justice system, with the intention of referring them to treatment and assistance as an alternative to incarceration and to reduce recidivism and to add to the list of crimes for which an inmate is sentenced and becomes ineligible to earn risk reduction credits and to require the warden to review and verify an inmate's record, if risk reduction credits are being applied to reduce such inmate's sentence.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

2 co-sponsors

Danté Bartolomeo, Henri Martin

In the House of Representatives

    2 co-sponsors

    Emil "Buddy" Altobello, Catherine F. Abercrombie

    Its course

    March 26 to March 27, 2015, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action2 actions on 2 days

    In the SenateMar 26 to Mar 27 · stopped1 day

    Judiciary CommitteeMar 26 to Mar 27 · stopped1 day

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the Senate Mar 26 – Mar 27

    1. Introduced and sent to Judiciary Committee
    2. Heard in Judiciary Committee
    All 2 actions, as published