House Journal: Page 1818: Tuesday, April 25, 2000
19 jail or other correctional or mental facility at any
20 time prior to sentencing, or after sentencing but
21 prior to the case having been decided on appeal,
22 because of failure to furnish bail or because of being
23 charged with a nonbailable offense, the inmate shall
24 be given credit for the days already served upon the
25 term of the sentence. However, if a person commits
26 any offense while confined in a county jail or other
27 correctional or mental health facility, the person
28 shall not be granted jail credit for that offense.
29 Unless the inmate was confined in a correctional
30 facility, the sheriff of the county in which the
31 inmate was confined shall certify to the clerk of the
32 district court from which the inmate was sentenced and
33 to the department of corrections' records
34 administrator at the Iowa medical and classification
35 center the number of days so served. The department
36 of corrections' records administrator, or the
37 administrator's designee, shall apply jail credit as
38 ordered by the court of proper jurisdiction or as
39 authorized by this section and section 907.3,
40 subsection 3, and shall forward a copy of the number
41 of days served to the clerk of the district court from
42 which the inmate was sentenced.
43 Sec. . Section 903A.5, unnumbered paragraph 2,
44 Code Supplement 1999, is amended to read as follows:
45 An inmate shall not receive credit upon the
46 inmate's sentence for time spent in custody in another
47 state resisting return to Iowa following an escape, or
48 for time served. However, an inmate shall receive
49 credit upon the inmate's sentence while incarcerated
50 in an institution or jail of another jurisdiction
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1 during any period of time the person is receiving
2 credit upon a sentence of that other jurisdiction.
3 Sec. . Section 903A.7, Code 1999, is amended to
4 read as follows:
5 903A.7 SEPARATE SENTENCES.
6 Consecutive multiple sentences that are within the
7 same category under section 903A.2 shall be construed
8 as one continuous sentence for purposes of calculating
9 reductions of sentence for good conduct earned time.
10 If a person is sentenced to serve sentences of both
11 categories, category "B" sentences shall be served
12 before category "A" sentences are served, and good
13 conduct earned time earned accrued against the
14 category "B" sentences shall not be used to reduce the
15 category "A" sentences. If an inmate serving a
16 category "A" sentence is sentenced to serve a category
17 "B" sentence, the category "A" sentence shall be
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