Text: HSB00553 Text: HSB00555 Text: HSB00500 - HSB00599 Text: HSB Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
PAG LIN
1 1 Section 1. NEW SECTION. 902.11A TRIAL INFORMATION OR
1 2 INDICTMENT.
1 3 A prosecuting attorney charging a person with an offense
1 4 subject to the maximum accumulation of good conduct time of
1 5 fifteen percent of the total sentence of confinement under
1 6 section 902.12 shall include a statement to that effect in the
1 7 indictment or trial information. The court shall allow an
1 8 indictment or trial information to be amended to include the
1 9 statement. The statement shall not be read to a jury. If the
1 10 indictment or trial information does not include the
1 11 statement, the person charged is not subject to the maximum
1 12 accumulation of good conduct time of fifteen percent of the
1 13 total sentence of confinement under section 902.12.
1 14 Sec. 2. Section 902.12, unnumbered paragraph 1, Code 1999,
1 15 is amended to read as follows:
1 16 Except as otherwise provided in section 902.11A or 903A.2,
1 17 a person serving a sentence for conviction of the following
1 18 forcible felonies shall serve one hundred percent of the
1 19 maximum term of the person's sentence and shall not be
1 20 released on parole or work release:
1 21 Sec. 3. Section 903A.2, subsection 1, paragraphs a and b,
1 22 Code 1999, are amended to read as follows:
1 23 a. Category "A" sentences are those sentences which are
1 24 not subject to a maximum accumulation of good conduct time of
1 25 fifteen percent of the total sentence of confinement under
1 26 section 902.12, and which have not been prosecuted under
1 27 section 902.11A. To the extent provided in subsection 5,
1 28 category "A" sentences also include life sentences imposed
1 29 under section 902.1. An inmate of an institution under the
1 30 control of the department of corrections who is serving a
1 31 category "A" sentence is eligible for a reduction of sentence
1 32 equal to one day for each day of good conduct while committed
1 33 to one of the department's institutions. In addition, each
1 34 inmate who is serving a category "A" sentence is eligible for
1 35 an additional reduction of up to five days per month if the
2 1 inmate participates satisfactorily in any of the following
2 2 activities:
2 3 (1) Employment in the institution.
2 4 (2) Iowa state industries.
2 5 (3) An employment program established by the director.
2 6 (4) A treatment program established by the director.
2 7 (5) An inmate educational program approved by the
2 8 director.
2 9 b. Category "B" sentences are those sentences which are
2 10 subject to a maximum accumulation of good conduct time of
2 11 fifteen percent of the total sentence of confinement under
2 12 section 902.12, and which have been prosecuted under section
2 13 902.11A. An inmate of an institution under the control of the
2 14 department of corrections who is serving a category "B"
2 15 sentence is eligible for a reduction of sentence equal to
2 16 fifteen eighty-fifths of a day for each day of good conduct by
2 17 the inmate.
2 18 EXPLANATION
2 19 This bill creates a new Code section relating to criminal
2 20 sentences that are subject to the maximum accumulation of good
2 21 time credit of 15 percent of the total sentence or commonly
2 22 known as an 85 percent sentence.
2 23 The bill provides that the prosecuting attorney charging a
2 24 defendant with an offense that is subject to an 85 percent
2 25 sentence shall include a statement in the indictment or trial
2 26 information indicating the sentence is subject to an 85
2 27 percent sentence. If the prosecuting attorney does not
2 28 include a statement in the indictment or trial information
2 29 indicating that the offense is subject to an 85 percent
2 30 sentence, the offense is subject to the same maximum
2 31 accumulation of good conduct time as other offenses with the
2 32 same classification level.
2 33 LSB 5770YC 78
2 34 jm/gg/8
Text: HSB00553 Text: HSB00555 Text: HSB00500 - HSB00599 Text: HSB Index Bills and Amendments: General Index Bill History: General Index
© 2000 Cornell College and League of Women Voters of Iowa
Comments about this site or page?
webmaster@legis.iowa.gov.
Please remember that the person listed above does not vote on bills. Direct all comments concerning legislation to State Legislators.
Last update: Fri Jan 28 03:35:32 CST 2000
URL: /DOCS/GA/78GA/Legislation/HSB/00500/HSB00554/000127.html
jhf