South Carolina General Assembly
115th Session, 2003-2004

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S. 573

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Ford
Document Path: l:\council\bills\swb\5354cm03.doc

Introduced in the Senate on April 9, 2003
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary

Summary: Home detention program as alternative to incarceration

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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    4/9/2003  Senate  Introduced and read first time SJ-16
    4/9/2003  Senate  Referred to Committee on Corrections and Penology SJ-16
   4/30/2003  Senate  Recalled from Committee on Corrections and Penology SJ-17
   4/30/2003  Senate  Committed to Committee on Judiciary SJ-17

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

4/9/2003

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A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 24-13-1530, AS AMENDED, 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, as last amended by Act 7 of 1995, is further 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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