BILL · 2019–20 SESSION
SB 6530: Postconviction review
Concerning postconviction review by the clemency and pardons board.
Summary
- Authorizes the Clemency and Pardons Board (CPB) to receive petitions and grant early release to offenders in total confinement.
- Authorizes the Governor to revoke any order from the CPB granting early release.
- Expands the CPB from five members to ten and prescribes representation.
- Requires the Department of Corrections (DOC) to supervise offenders granted early release by the CPB and authorizes DOC to return the offender to confinement for community custody violations.
From the Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (SB 6530), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee
- IntroducedJan 21, 2020
- Out of committeestopped here
- Passed Senate
- Passed House
- Governor
- Law
- Prime sponsor
- Manka Dhingra (D-45)
- Introduced
- January 21, 2020 in the Senate
- Last action
- January 21, 2020
- Budget
- Has a fiscal note
AN ACT Relating to postconviction review by the clemency and pardons board;
Sponsors
Votes
No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.
History
- First reading, referred to Law & Justice.
SB 6530 in other sessions
Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.
- SB 6530 (2017–18) Transp. accounts transfers
- SB 6530 (2015–16) Language of public notices
- SB 6530 (2013–14) Educational employee COLAs
- SB 6530 (2011–12) Neurodevelopmental therapies
- SB 6530 (2009–10) Access to public records
- SB 6530 (2007–08) Children's safe products
- SB 6530 (2005–06) Electronic voter registratn
- SB 6530 (2003–04) School staff reprimands