South Carolina General Assembly
116th Session, 2005-2006

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Bill 4687

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AMENDED

March 9, 2006

H. 4687

Introduced by Reps. Cotty and Harrison

S. Printed 3/9/06--H.

Read the first time February 21, 2006.

            

A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 20-7-6840, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO COMMUNITY SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT INTENSIVE SUPERVISION SERVICES ARE AMONG THE COMMUNITY-BASED PROGRAMS THE DEPARTMENT PROVIDES; AND TO SPECIFY THOSE JUVENILES WHO MUST BE ASSIGNED TO INTENSIVE SUPERVISION SERVICES AND TO FURTHER PROVIDE FOR THE SCOPE AND DELIVERY OF THESE SERVICES.

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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 20-7-6840(13) of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 383 of 1996, is amended to read:

"(13)    providing a variety of community-based programs to serve as alternatives to institutions including, but not limited to, halfway houses, work release, intensive probation supervision services, restitution, forestry and wilderness camps, marine science programs, and other residential and nonresidential programs;"

SECTION    2.    Section 20-7-6840 of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 383 of 1996, is amended by adding an appropriately numbered item at the end to read:

"( )    Juveniles must be assigned to intensive probation or aftercare services by the Department of Juvenile Justice. Juveniles assigned to these intensive supervision services must be those juveniles who require enhanced supervision, monitoring and contacts, or a higher level of treatment services. Intensive supervision must be provided by the department in all regions of the State. In conjunction with establishing these intensive supervision services, the department shall develop an array of graduated sanctions and impose these sanctions on offenders being provided intensive supervision services for technical rule violations and minor infractions, whenever feasible to do so, in lieu of re-incarceration of the juvenile in a secure correctional facility. The array of graduated sanctions developed by the department may include, as a condition of probation or parole, placement of a juvenile in a staff or environmentally secure residential program. Case workers selected to monitor, supervise, and serve juveniles assigned to intensive supervision services shall have caseloads of no more than twenty juveniles."

SECTION    3.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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