Bill Text: PA HB559 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Further providing for parole power.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 15-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-08 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB559 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB559-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  526

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

559

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY PETRI, BOYD, D. COSTA, GEIST, HENNESSEY, HESS, KNOWLES, MAJOR, MILLARD, MILLER, MURT, PETRARCA, PYLE, RAPP, READSHAW, SCAVELLO AND VULAKOVICH, FEBRUARY 8, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 8, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

1

Amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania

2

Consolidated Statutes, further providing for parole power.

3

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

4

hereby enacts as follows:

5

Section 1.  Section 6137(e)(3)(i) and (4) of Title 61,

6

amended October 27, 2010 (P.L.  , No.95), are amended to read:

7

§ 6137.  Parole power.

8

* * *

9

(e)  Drug screening tests.--

10

* * *

11

(3)  (i)  The board shall establish, as a condition of

12

continued parole for a parolee who, as an inmate, tested

13

positive for the presence of a controlled substance or a

14

designer drug or who was paroled from a sentence arising

15

from a conviction under The Controlled Substance, Drug,

16

Device and Cosmetic Act or from a drug-related crime, or

17

from a crime of violence as defined in 42 Pa.C.S. §

18

9714(g) (relating to sentences for second and subsequent

 


1

offenses) or any felony  conviction, the parolee's

2

achievement of negative results in such screening tests

3

randomly applied.

4

* * *

5

(4)  For a parolee who was not paroled from a sentence

6

arising from a conviction under The Controlled Substance,

7

Drug, Device and Cosmetic Act or from a drug-related crime,

8

or from a crime of violence as defined in 42 Pa.C.S. §

9

9714(g) (relating to sentences for second and subsequent

10

offenses) or any felony  conviction, the board may establish,

11

as a condition of parole, that the parolee achieve negative

12

results in screening tests randomly conducted. The parolee

13

shall be responsible for testing costs.

14

* * *

15

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

- 2 -

 


feedback