HB 3078 — Relating to powers and duties of the parole board

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Red = new code to be enacted WEST virginia legislature regular session OriginatingENROLLED House Bill 3078 By Delegates Capito, Lovejoy, Fast, Pushkin, Brown, Fluharty, Queen, Pinson, L.

Pack,  Bruce and Zukoff [Introduced[Passed MarchApril 10, 2021;

referredin toeffect theninety Committeedays onfrom thepassage.] Judiciary]   AAN BILLACT to amend and reenact §62-12-13 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the powers and duties of the parole board,board; the procedure for granting parole and the conditions of reason on parole.

providing as a new parole eligibility requirement the successful completion of certain rehabilitative and educational programs during incarceration;

providing that an inmate who is unable, through no fault of the inmate, to complete the required rehabilitative and educational programs, but who has completed all other parole eligibility requirements, may be granted parole under certain conditions;

authorizing completion of specified rehabilitative and educational programs outside of a correctional institution as a special condition of a person’s parole term;

authorizing the Parole Board to consider whether completion of the outstanding amount of rehabilitative and educational programming would interfere with an inmate’s successful reintegration into society;

and requiring the Commissioner of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop, maintain, and make publicly available a list of certain rehabilitative and educational programs outside of the correctional institution which an inmate may be required to complete as a special condition of parole, and the manner and method for an inmate to complete such programs.

ARTICLE 12.

PROBATION AND PAROLE.

and (4) Has satisfied the board that if released on parole he or she will not constitute a danger to the community;

and (5) Has successfully completed any individually required rehabilitative and educational programsprograms, whileas indetermined prison: by the division, while incarcerated:  Provided, ThatThat, theeffective CommissionerSeptember shall1, develop2021, andany maintaininmate awho list,satisfies availableall toother theparole public,eligibility ofrequirements programsbut availableis outsideunable, thethrough prisonno whichfault shallof bethe appropriateinmate, to complete anhis inmate’sor her required rehabilitative and educational programprograms aswhile aincarcerated, specialwhich conditionare ofeligible parole,to andbe satisfytaken thiswhile specialon conditionparole, ofmay be granted parole andwith the mannercompletion andof methodsuch inspecified whichprograms suchoutside programsof shallthe becorrectional completedinstitutions bybeing thea parolee:special condition of that person’s parole term:

Provided, however, That,That effectivethe SeptemberParole 1,Board 2021, any inmate who satisfies all other parole eligibility requirements but is unable to complete required rehabilitative and educational programs while in prison, which are eligible to be taken while on parole may beconsider grantedwhether parole with the completion of suchthe rehabilitativeinmate’s andoutstanding educationalamount programsof outsidesuch theprogramming correctionalwould facilityinterfere beingwith ahis specialor conditionher ofsuccessful thatreintegration person’sinto parolesociety. term.

An inmate may not be paroled under the special terms of this subdivision if the Parole Board finds that he or she has not completed the majority of his or her rehabilitative and educational programming and that the amount of rehabilitative and educational programming which must still be completed would interfere with his or her successful reintegration into society.

(p) Prior to making a recommendation for pardon, reprieve or commutation, the board shall notify the sentencing judge and prosecuting attorney at least ten10 days before the recommendation.

NOTE:(r) The commissioner shall develop, maintain, and make publicly available a general list of rehabilitative and educational programs available outside of the correctional institutions which an inmate may be required to complete as a special condition of parole pursuant to subdivision (5) of subsection (b) of this section, and the manner and method in which such programs shall be completed by the parolee.

The purposeJoint ofCommittee thison billEnrolled isBills tohereby addcertifies athat proviso in the codeforegoing thatbill wouldis allowcorrectly anenrolled. inmate to be released from prison and complete required rehabilitative and educational classes while on parole as a condition of parole.

  Strike-throughs  indicate............................................................... language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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                             Chairman, Senate Committee                                                       Originating in the House.

  In effect ninety days from passage.

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