Bill Text: PA HB36 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for release plans.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 37-14)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-05 - Referred to JUDICIARY [HB36 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB36-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 806
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 36 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY DALLY, ARGALL, BAKER, BARRAR, BELFANTI, BEYER, BRENNAN, CAUSER, CIVERA, CLYMER, D. COSTA, CRUZ, CUTLER, GEIST, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GODSHALL, GRELL, HARRIS, KAUFFMAN, W. KELLER, KILLION, MAJOR, MANN, MARSHALL, MELIO, MILLARD, MILNE, MURT, MUSTIO, M. O'BRIEN, PAYNE, PEIFER, PETRI, PICKETT, PYLE, QUIGLEY, QUINN, READSHAW, REICHLEY, SABATINA, SCAVELLO, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, STERN, SWANGER, TRUE, VULAKOVICH, WALKO AND WATSON, MARCH 5, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 5, 2009
AN ACT
Amending the act of July 16, 1968 (P.L.351, No.173), entitled,
as amended, "An act authorizing the establishment of prisoner
pre-release centers and release plans under the jurisdiction
of the Department of Justice and defining its powers and
duties," further providing for release plans.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 2(a) of the act of July 16, 1968
(P.L.351, No.173), referred to as the Prisoner Pre-release Plan
Law, amended December 27, 1974 (P.L.933, No.325), is amended to
read:
Section 2. Release Plan for Prison Inmates.--(a) The
[Commissioner of Correction] Secretary of Corrections may
transfer any person incarcerated in any pre-release center or in
any pre-release center located in any State or Regional Penal or
Correctional Institution under the supervision of the [Bureau of
Correction] Department of Corrections who has not been sentenced
to death or life imprisonment, or convicted of rape, robbery,
criminal homicide, aggravated assault or any crime committed
with a firearm, to any pre-release center under the supervision
of the Department of [Justice] Corrections.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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