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STATE OF OKLAHOMA
1st Session of the 59th Legislature (2023)
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
HOUSE BILL NO. 2477 By: Hill
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
[ prisons and reformatories - Department of
Corrections - develop written guidelines - Pardon
and Parole Board - termination dates - defining
term - effective date ]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
SECTION 1. AMENDATORY Section 2, Chapter 273, O.S.L.
2022 (57 O.S. Supp. 2022, Section 512.1), is amended to read a s
follows:
Section 512.1 A. Every offender released to parole supervi sion
or administrative parole may be eligible to earn credits for
compliance with the terms and conditions of parole supervis ion or
administrative parole that reduce the term of supervision or
administrative parole. For every calendar month of compliance with
the terms and conditions of parole supervis ion or administrative
parole, the Department of Corr ections may shall award the offender
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earned credits equal to thirty (30) calendar da ys to be applied
toward a reduction of the parole supervision or administrative
parole period. For the purposes of this section, "compliance" may
be defined as the absence of a violation repor t submitted by a
probation and parole officer during a calendar month. No person
convicted of an offense under Section 13.1 or subsection C, D, E, F,
G, or J of Section 644 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall be
eligible for earned credits pursuant to this section.
B. The Department of Corrections may develop written policies
and procedures necessar y for the implementation of earned credits as
authorized pursuant to this section. The policies and procedures
developed by the Depa rtment of Corrections may include, but are not
limited to, written guidelines rega rding the process to earn credits
and the application of the credits towa rd the reduction of the term
of supervision or administrative parole, the collection of data
related to who earns credit, how much is applied and how much of the
supervision or administrative parole period is reduced.
C. The Department may shall maintain a record of credits earned
by an offender under this section. At least every six (6) months
from the date the offender is placed on parole supervision or
administrative parole, the Department may notify the offender o f the
current parole supervision or administrative parole termination
date.
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D. The Department may notify the Pardon and Parole Board of the
impending parole supervision or administrative parole termination
date not less than thirty (30) days prior to the expected date.
However, nothing in this section may prohibit the Department from
requesting an earlier parole supervision or administrative parole
termination date.
E. A person on parole who complete s the following diplomas,
higher education degrees, or training shall receive the
corresponding lump sum of earned credits :
1. Ninety (90) days for high school diploma or high school
equivalency diploma;
2. One hundred twenty (120) days for any college-level degree;
and
3. Sixty (60) days for a vocational, technical, or career
training certification or degree.
SECTION 2. NEW LAW A new s ection of law to be codified
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 512.2 of Title 57, unless there
is created a duplicatio n in numbering, reads as follows:
A. Every offender sentenced to a suspended sentence and whose
probation is supervised by the Department of Corrections, a district
attorney, or a private supervision provider, shall be eligible to
earn credits for compliance with the terms and conditions of
probation that reduce the term of probation. For every calendar
month of compliance with the terms and conditions of probation, the
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Department of Correctio ns, district attorney, or private superv ision
provider shall award the offender earned credits equal to thirty
(30) calendar days to be applied toward a reduction of the
probation. For the purposes of this section, "compliance" shall be
defined as the absence of a violation report submitted by a
probation officer during a calendar month. No person convicted of
an offense under Section 13.1 or subsection C, D, E, F, G, or J of
Section 644 of Title 21 of the Oklahoma Statutes shall be eligible
for earned credits pursuant to this section.
B. The Department of Corrections shall develop written policies
and procedures necessary for the implementation of earned credits as
authorized pursuant to this section. The policies and procedures
developed by the Department shall be the policies and procedures
that all entities that provide probation supervision service s adhere
to. The policies and procedures developed by the Department may
include, but are not limited to, written guidelines regarding the
process to earn credits and application of the credits toward the
reduction of the term of probation, the collection of data related
to who earns credits, how much is applied to the term of probation,
and how much the term of probation is reduced.
C. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the
modification of the se ntence of an offender pursuant to the
provisions of Section 982a of Title 22 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
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SECTION 3. This act shall become effective November 1, 2023.
59-1-7927 LRB 03/02/23