Introduced Version






HOUSE BILL No. 1399

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DIGEST OF INTRODUCED BILL



Citations Affected: IC 11-8-2-9 ; IC 11-12; IC 35-38-2.6-2.

Synopsis: Community corrections goals and statistics. Requires state and locally operated community corrections programs to report to the executive director of the legislative services agency the race, ethnicity, and communicable disease carrier status of offenders in the programs. Adds the reintegration of offenders into the community as a purpose for the establishment and operation of community corrections programs. Amends the definition of community corrections to include programs that reintegrate offenders into the community. (The introduced version of this bill was prepared by the corrections matters evaluation committee.)

Effective: July 1, 2001.





Smith V, Foley, Cheney, Ayres




    January 11, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Courts and Criminal Code.







Introduced

First Regular Session 112th General Assembly (2001)


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HOUSE BILL No. 1399



    A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning corrections.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:

SOURCE: IC 11-8-2-9; (01)IN1399.1.1. -->     SECTION 1. IC 11-8-2-9 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2001]: Sec. 9. (a) The department shall establish a program of research and statistics, alone or in cooperation with others, for the purpose of assisting in the identification and achievement of realistic short term and long term departmental goals, the making of administrative decisions, and the evaluation of the facilities and programs of the entire state correctional system. Information relating to the following must be compiled:
        (1) An inventory of current facilities and programs, including residential and nonresidential community programs and offender participation.
        (2) Population characteristics and trends, including the following concerning offenders:
            (A) Ethnicity.
            (B) Race.
             (C) Gender.
             (D) Carrier (as defined in IC 16-18-2-49 ) status.
        (3) Judicial sentencing practices.
        (4) Service area resources, needs, and capabilities.
        (5) Recidivism of offenders.
        (6) Projected operating and capital expenditures.
    (b) The department may conduct research into the causes, detection, and treatment of criminality and delinquency and disseminate the results of that research.
     (c) Annually, within thirty (30) days after the close of the department's fiscal year, the department shall forward the information with respect to state operated community corrections programs compiled under subsection (a)(2) to the executive director of the legislative services agency.
SOURCE: IC 11-12-1-6; (01)IN1399.1.2. -->     SECTION 2. IC 11-12-1-6 IS ADDED TO THE INDIANA CODE AS A NEW SECTION TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2001]: Sec. 6. A community corrections advisory board established under section 2 of this chapter shall compile information relating to the ethnicity, race, gender, and carrier (as defined in IC 16-18-2-49 ) status of persons described in section 2(2), 2(3), and 2(4) of this chapter who are served by community corrections programs coordinated or operated by the board. The board shall forward this information annually, within thirty (30) days after the close of the board's fiscal year, to the executive director of the legislative services agency.
SOURCE: IC 11-12-2-1; (01)IN1399.1.3. -->     SECTION 3. IC 11-12-2-1 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2001]: Sec. 1. For the purpose of encouraging counties to develop a coordinated local corrections-criminal justice system, and providing effective alternatives to imprisonment at the state level, and reintegrating offenders into the community, the commissioner shall, out of funds appropriated for such purposes, make grants to counties for the establishment and operation of community corrections programs. Appropriations intended for this purpose may not be used by the department for any other purpose. Money appropriated to the department of correction for the purpose of making grants under this chapter, and charges made against a county under section 9, do not revert to the general fund at the close of any fiscal year, but remain available to the department of correction for its use in making grants under this chapter.
SOURCE: IC 35-38-2.6-2; (01)IN1399.1.4. -->     SECTION 4. IC 35-38-2.6-2 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS [EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2001]: Sec. 2. As used in this chapter, "community corrections program" means a program consisting of residential and work release, electronic monitoring, day treatment, or day reporting, or a service to reintegrate offenders into the

community that is:
        (1) operated under a community corrections plan of a county and funded at least in part by the state subsidy provided under IC 11-12-2 ; or
        (2) operated by or under contract with a court or county.