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STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Ford
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Introduced in the Senate on January 13, 2009
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Corrections and Penology
Summary: Home detention
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12/10/2008 Senate Prefiled 12/10/2008 Senate Referred to Committee on Corrections and Penology 1/13/2009 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-87 1/13/2009 Senate Referred to Committee on Corrections and Penology SJ-87
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 24-13-1530, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO CORRECTIONAL PROGRAMS FOR WHICH HOME DETENTION MAY BE SUBSTITUTED, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A COURT MAY SENTENCE CERTAIN OFFENDERS TO A HOME DETENTION PROGRAM AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO INCARCERATION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 24-13-1530(A) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"(A) Notwithstanding another provision of law which requires mandatory incarceration, a court may sentence an offender to an electronic and or a nonelectronic home detention programs may be used program as an alternative to incarceration for low risk, nonviolent adult and juvenile offenders as selected by the court if there is a home detention program available in the jurisdiction. In addition, applications by offenders for home detention may be made to the court as an alternative to the following correctional programs:
(1) pretrial or preadjudicatory detention;
(2) probation (intensive supervision);
(3) community corrections (diversion);
(4) parole (early release);
(5) work release;
(6) institutional furlough;
(7) jail diversion; or
(8) shock incarceration."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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