Bill Text: NH HB1369 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring judges to grant earned time credits when a prisoner has substantially reduced the threat he or she poses to the public.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-11 - Inexpedient to Legislate: Motion Adopted Voice Vote 03/09/2016 House Journal 23 P. 10 [HB1369 Detail]
Download: New_Hampshire-2016-HB1369-Introduced.html
HB 1369 - AS INTRODUCED
2016 SESSION
16-2567
04/06
HOUSE BILL 1369
AN ACT requiring judges to grant earned time credits when a prisoner has substantially reduced the threat he or she poses to the public.
SPONSORS: Rep. Robertson, Ches. 6; Rep. Spang, Straf. 6; Rep. B. French, Merr. 6
COMMITTEE: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
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ANALYSIS
This bill requires the sentencing court to grant a prisoner's petition for earned time credits whenever the prisoner has substantially reduced, through self-improvement efforts, the threat he or she poses to the public.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
16-2567
04/06
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Sixteen
AN ACT requiring judges to grant earned time credits when a prisoner has substantially reduced the threat he or she poses to the public.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 Parole of Prisoners; Earned Time Credits. Amend RSA 651-A:22-a, II to read as follows:
II. The earned time reductions authorized in paragraph I of this section shall be available to prisoners who were incarcerated on or after the effective date of this section and who have been granted this option by the presiding justice at the time of sentencing. The earned time reductions authorized in paragraph I of this section shall be available to prisoners who were incarcerated prior to the effective date of this section upon recommendation of the commissioner and upon approval of the sentencing court in response to a petition which is timely brought by the prisoner. The sentencing court shall grant the petition for earned time credits whenever the prisoner has substantially reduced, through self-improvement efforts, the threat he or she poses to the public.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.
