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HOUSE SUMMARY OF SENATE AMENDMENTS
HB 102 2022 Regular Session Muscarello
PAROLE: Provides relative to parole hearings
Synopsis of Senate Amendments
1.Provides that beginning on Aug. 1, 2024, the committee on parole shall not
consider a parole rehearing of any prisoner serving a sentence for certain
offenses until at least four years after the denial of parole.
2.Removes the effective date for proposed law.
Digest of Bill as Finally Passed by Senate
Present law requires parole hearings to be conducted in a formal manner and in accordance
with the rules formulated by the committee on parole and with provisions of present law.
Further requires prisoners to appear before and be interviewed by the committee on parole
before parole is considered.
Proposed law provides that beginning on Aug. 1, 2024, the committee on parole shall not
consider a parole rehearing of any prisoner who is serving a sentence for any of the following
offenses until at least four years after the denial of parole:
(1)Any crime of violence or sex offense, for which the prisoner is serving a life sentence
and for which the prisoner is eligible for parole.
(2)Any crime that is both a crime of violence and a sex offense, for which the prisoner
is serving a fixed term of years and for which the prisoner is eligible for parole.
(3)Manslaughter, for which the prisoner is eligible for parole.
(Amends R.S. 15:574.4.1(A)(1))
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