How SB 641 changes current law

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The bill establishes new provisions allowing sheriffs to house work-release program participants in county jails, while detailing eligibility and procedures for such housing.

• 12-30-408

  12-30-408. Election by sheriff to house work-release program participant.

  This creates a new section allowing sheriffs to elect to house work-release participants.

• 16-90-402(a)(1)

  In executing a judgment of confinement, the county sheriff shall deliver the defendant with a certified standardized copy of the sentencing order to the Division of Correction, Division of Community Correction a secured facility operated or contracted by either the Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction, or to another detention facility, as indicated in the sentencing order. → In Except as provided under § 12-30-408, in executing a judgment of confinement, the county sheriff shall deliver the defendant with a certified standardized copy of the sentencing order to the Division of Correction, Division of Community Correction a secured facility operated or contracted by either the Division of Correction or the Division of Community Correction, or to another detention facility, as indicated in the sentencing order.

  This adds an exception for the new section regarding work-release program housing in the execution of confinement judgments.