Bill Text: HI SB2025 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Parole; Final Discharge
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-11 - (H) The committee(s) recommends that the measure be deferred. [SB2025 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB2025-Amended.html
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PAROLE.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Section 353-70, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:
"§353-70 Final discharge.
Whenever, in [its] the opinion[,] of the Hawaii
paroling authority, any paroled prisoner has given such evidence as is
deemed reliable and trustworthy that the paroled prisoner will remain at
liberty without violating the law and that the paroled prisoner's final release
is not incompatible with the welfare of society, the Hawaii paroling authority
may grant the prisoner a written discharge from further liability under the
prisoner's sentence.
Any paroled prisoner who has been on parole for
at least five years shall be brought before the paroling authority for purposes
of consideration for final discharge [and complete pardon. In the event the
prisoner is not granted a final discharge and full pardon, the paroled prisoner
shall be brought before the paroling authority for the aforementioned purposes
annually thereafter.
Any person, who, while on parole, enters the
military service of the United States, may, upon the person's honorable
discharge therefrom, petition the paroling authority for a final discharge, and
the paroling authority may consider the honorable discharge as grounds for
granting a final discharge from parole and recommending to the governor a full
pardon]."
SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Parole; Final Discharge
Description:
Repeals provision to require annual review by the paroling authority of paroled prisoner who is not granted a final discharge and full pardon. Repeals provision to allow a paroled prisoner who enters military service of the U.S. to petition for final discharge from parole based on an honorable discharge from the military. (SD2)
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