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.