Georgia Senate Bill 524 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on March 18 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-03-18 - Senate Read and Referred
Pending: Senate State Institutions and Property Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend various titles of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, so as to establish a community supervision division of the Department of Corrections which will be responsible for supervising probationers, parolees, and persons conditionally released; to provide for a director of the division; to reassign various functions from the State Board of Pardons and Paroles to the new division; to provide for transition to the new division; to reorganize probation officers and parole officers into community supervision officers; to provide for definitions; to enlarge the Board of Corrections to include the chairman of the State Board of Pardons and Paroles; to provide for related matters; to provide for an effective date; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.

Corrections; establish a community supervision division; responsible for supervising probationers, parolees, and persons conditionally released

Sen. Bill Cowsert [R]

Sen. Bill Heath [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-18		Senate Read and Referred

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/30845
Text	http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/versions/sb524_As_introduced_LC_29_4265_EC_2.htm