Kansas 2023 2023-2024 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2069 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/18/2023

                    Session of 2023
HOUSE BILL No. 2069
By Committee on Corrections and Juvenile Justice
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AN ACT concerning crimes, punishment and criminal procedure; relating 
to postrelease supervision; providing that such term does not toll except 
as provided by law; amending K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 22-3722 and 
repealing the existing section.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas:
Section 1. K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 22-3722 is hereby amended to read as 
follows: 22-3722. (a) The period served on parole or conditional release 
shall be deemed service of the term of confinement, and, subject to the 
provisions contained in K.S.A. 75-5217, and amendments thereto, relating 
to an inmate who is a fugitive from or has fled from justice, the total time 
served may not exceed the maximum term or sentence. The period served 
on postrelease supervision shall vest in and be subject to the provisions 
contained in K.S.A. 75-5217, and amendments thereto, relating to an 
inmate who is a fugitive from or has fled from justice. The service of the 
postrelease supervision period shall not toll except as provided by K.S.A. 
75-5217, and amendments thereto. The total time served shall not exceed 
the postrelease supervision period established at sentencing.
(b) When an inmate on parole or conditional release has performed 
the obligations of the release for such time as shall satisfy the prisoner 
review board that final release is not incompatible with the best interest of 
society and the welfare of the individual, the board may make a final order 
of discharge and issue a certificate of discharge to the inmate but no such 
order of discharge shall be made in any case within a period of less than 
one year after the date of release except where the sentence expires earlier 
thereto. When an inmate has reached the end of the postrelease supervision 
period, the board shall issue a certificate of discharge to the releasee. Such 
discharge, and the discharge of an inmate who has served the inmate's term 
of imprisonment, shall have the effect of restoring all civil rights lost by 
operation of law upon commitment, and the certification of discharge shall 
so state. Nothing herein contained shall be held to impair the power of the 
governor to grant a pardon or commutation of sentence in any case.
Sec. 2. K.S.A. 2022 Supp. 22-3722 is hereby repealed.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its 
publication in the statute book.
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