The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part of the
legislative instrument, were prepared by James Benton.
DIGEST
Mills (SB 399)
Present law provides numerous criteria for parole eligibility and consideration. Each set of
criteria requires that the offender has not committed any disciplinary offenses in the 12
consecutive months prior to the parole eligibility date.
Proposed law changes the criteria to require that the offender has not committed a "major
disciplinary offense" and defines a "major disciplinary offense" as an offense identified as a
Schedule B offense by DPS&C in the Disciplinary Rules and Procedures for Adult Offenders.
Also, changes the relevant time period from the 12 months prior to the parole eligibility date to
the 12 months prior to the parole hearing date.
Present law requires as part of the conditions for eligibility that the offender has completed the
mandatory minimum of 100 hours of prerelease programming in accordance with present law, if
available, and substance abuse treatment, if applicable and available.
Proposed law retains present law but consistently limits the requirement of such program and
treatment to that available at the facility where offender is incarcerated.
Effective August 1, 2014.
(Amends R.S. 15:574.4(A)(4)(b), (B)(2)(a)(iii), (iv) and (v), (B)(2)(b)(iii), (iv) and (v),
(B)(2)(c)(iii), (iv) and (v), (B)(2)(d)(iii),(iv) and (v), (D)(1)(b), and (E)(1)(b))