SB 5904: Convicted persons

Summary

• Increases criminal penalties for sexual offenses against children, domestic violence felonies, crimes against seniors and vulnerable adults, and habitual property and Driving Under the Influence (DUI) offenders.
• Adjusts community custody caseload by: (1) reducing supervision for most jail offenders; (2) authorizing earned time for community custody sentences; (3) making concurrent supervision the default when there are multiple supervision sentences for multiple offenses; (4) instituting a pilot project for the supervision of offenders convicted of motor vehicle related offenses; and (5) requiring a first time offender waiver for eligible offenses.
• Reduces prison caseload by (1) mandating the first time offender waiver for certain offenses, and (2) removing the sunset date from the existing drug sentencing grid.
• Makes Driving With a License Suspended in the third degree an infraction rather than a misdemeanor.
• Creates a program that provides state-issued identicards to certain offenders released from prison.

From the Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (SB 5904), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗