Sentence credits for time on parole or extended supervision, sentencing limitations on extended supervision, early discharge from extended supervision, making an appropriation, and providing a penalty. (FE)

Under current law, the Department of Corrections may not discharge a person from extended supervision until the bifurcated sentence, as set by the sentencing court, is complete. This bill allows the sentencing court to reduce the term of a person's extended supervision and discharge the person from extended supervision after he or she has served the lesser of three years or 50 percent of the term of extended supervision without violating the conditions and rules of supervision if the person has met all of his or her financial obligations, is not required to register as a sex offender, and is serving a sentence for a crime that is not a crime against life or bodily security or a specified crime against a child.

Under current law, a person's extended supervision or parole may be revoked if he or she violates a condition of the extended supervision or parole. Under current law, if extended supervision or parole is revoked, the Division of Hearings and Appeals, or DOC if the person has waived a hearing, may order incarceration for up to the length of the original sentence, less any time actually served in confinement and less any credit for good behavior. Under this bill, a person receives an earned compliance credit for time served on extended supervision or parole without any condition or rule violations before the condition or rule violation that precipitated the revocation occurred. Under the bill, a person is eligible to receive earned compliance credit for time served on extended supervision or parole only if the person is not required to register as a sex offender and is serving a sentence for a crime that is not a crime against life or bodily security or a specified crime against a child. Under the bill, if a person's extended supervision or parole is revoked, he or she may be incarcerated for up to the length of the original sentence, less any credit for time served in confinement, any credit for good behavior, and any earned compliance credit.

This bill requires DOC to submit an annual report to the governor, the legislature, and the director of state courts on early discharges from extended supervision and the reduced days spent in incarceration due to the earned compliance credit. Under the bill, the amount of money that DOC reports is saved through these measures is used to reduce caseloads for community supervision officers. This bill also requires DOC to review and report on the efficacy of its standard conditions and rules of supervision to the governor, the legislature, and the director of state courts.

Because this bill creates a new crime or revises a penalty for an existing crime, the Joint Review Committee on Criminal Penalties may be requested to prepare a report.