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HB 0846 - Penal institutions; notification of crime victims of impending release of an offender from imprisonment; revise requirements

Tracking Level: Monitor
Sponsor: Watson, Sam 172nd (R)
Last Action: 1/28/2016 - House Second Readers
House Committee: JudyNC
Assigned To:
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Staff Analysis of the Legislation

            HB 846 seeks to amend Title 42 of the O.C.G.A. relating to penal institutions.

            Subsection (b) of Code Section 42-1-11 is revised to include the situations in which an inmate is released into custody of any other state or the federal government or is released from a compacting state as scenarios in which the custodial authority shall make a good faith effort to notify the victim that the offender is to be released from prison. 

            Code Section 42-5-9 is revised to include the aforementioned language through in regard to the notice of relevant state officials. It also mandates that a notification of release shall specifically include the name of the state or federal government agency into whose custody the inmate will be released

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