Bill Text: MS SB2051 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Corrections; revise conditions for medical release of inmates.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2012-03-06 - Died In Committee [SB2051 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2012-SB2051-Introduced.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2012 Regular Session
To: Corrections
By: Senator(s) Simmons (13th)
Senate Bill 2051
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 47-7-4, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT THAT AN INMATE MUST BE TERMINALLY ILL TO QUALIFY FOR CONDITIONAL MEDICAL RELEASE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI:
SECTION 1. Section 47-7-4, Mississippi Code of 1972, is amended as follows:
47-7-4. The commissioner and the medical director of the department may place an offender who has served not less than one (1) year of his or her sentence, except an offender convicted of a sex crime, on conditional medical release. However, an eligible nonviolent offender * * * may be placed on conditional medical release regardless of the time served on his or her sentence. Upon the release of an * * * offender * * * pursuant to this section, the state shall not be responsible or liable for any medical costs that may be incurred if such costs are acquired after the offender is no longer incarcerated due to his or her placement on conditional medical release. The commissioner shall not place an offender on conditional medical release unless the medical director of the department certifies to the commissioner (a) that the offender is suffering from a significant permanent physical medical condition that is incapacitating or totally disabling; (b) that his or her further incarceration will serve no rehabilitative purposes; and (c) that the state would incur unreasonable expenses as a result of his or her continued incarceration. Any offender placed on conditional medical release shall be supervised by the Division of Community Corrections of the department for the remainder of his or her sentence. An offender's conditional medical release may be revoked and the offender returned and placed in actual custody of the department if the offender violates an order or condition of his or her conditional medical release.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
