Elimination of good time for violent offenders.

2018
STATE OF WYOMING
18LSO-0133
Numbered
1.2

HOUSE BILL

NO.

HB0057

Elimination of good time for violent offenders.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Haley and Paxton and Senator(s) Moniz

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to sentencing and imprisonment; eliminating good time for violent offenders; providing applicability; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1
.

W.S. 7
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13
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420(
a) and by creating a new subsection (d)
is
amended to read:

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13
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420
.

Good time allowances.

(a)

The governor, after consultation with the board and the department, shall adopt rules and regulations to
establish a system of good time and special good time allowances for inmates of and parolees from any state penal institution, any institution which houses Wyoming inmates pursuant to W.S. 7
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3
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401 or any correctional facility operated pursuant to a contract with the state under W.S. 7
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22
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102 or inmates or parolees transferred to a community correctional facility pursuant to W.S. 7
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18
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109 or 7
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18
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115.
Except as provided in subsection (d) of this section, t
he rules may provide either for good time to be deducted from the maximum sentence or for good time to be deducted from the minimum sentence imposed by the sentencing court, or both, and may provide for the removal of previously earned good time allowances and the withholding of future good time allowances.

(d)

Good time shall not be allowed for any inmate or parolee
serving a sentence for
a violent felony. For purposes of this
sub
section,
"
violent felony
"
means murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, sexual assault in the first or second degree,
sexual abuse of a minor in the first or second degree,
robbery, aggravated assault
and battery
,
aggravated
arson
or aggravated burglary.

Section 2
.

This act applies to persons convicted on or after July 1, 2018.

Section 3
.

This act is effective July 1, 201
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