WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

Ch. 716

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1994. It shall remain effective for a period of 20 years and at the end of June 30,
2014, with no further action required by the General Assembly, this Act shall be
abrogated and of no further force and effect.

Approved May 26, 1994.

CHAPTER 716
(Senate Bill 353)

AN ACT concerning

Parole - Violators-Parole — Probation— Crimes of Violence - Mandatory Sentencing -

Parole

FOR the purpose of mandating automatic parole revocation for certain persons who are
charged with certain crimes; creating a Task Force on Parole Violators; requiring
the Task Force to develop certain guidelines; providing for the membership of the
Task Force; requiring the Task Force to submit its proposed guidelines to certain
persons by a certain date; and generally relating to parole violators prohibiting a
court from granting probation to a person who is convicted of a felony under certain
circumstances; imposing certain mandatory minimum penalties on persons who are
convicted of a second or third crime of violences; increasing the portion of a sentence
of incarceration that must be served by certain persons before becoming eligible for
parole; requiring the Parole Commission to issue a certain warrant and take certain
other steps if a person on parole is charged with a crime of violence; providing that
parole will be automatically revoked under certain circumstances; prohibiting the
Parole Commission from granting credit to prisoner for the time between release
on parole and revocation of parole under certain circumstances; requiring that
parole hearings be made open to the public; providing certain exceptions; requiring
that votes of members of the Parole Commission on certain formal actions be made
available to the public; providing that this Act may not be construed as authorizing
the release of information that is otherwise made confidential by law; and generally
relating to parole, probation, establishing that a person who is convicted a second time
of a "crime of violence" is subject to a mandatory sentence of a certain number of years
under certain circumstances; making certain stylistic and clarifying changes: providing
an exception to the prohibition against parole for inmates of a certain age under certain
circumstances; requiring the Parole Commission to adopt certain regulations; providing
that parole hearings be open to the public under certain circumstances; requiring the
Parole Commission to make certain records available to the public and deny admission
or attendance to parole hearings under certain circumstances; providing for the closing
of parole hearings under certain circumstances; prohibiting the granting of credit to an
inmate for the time between release on parole and revocation of parole under certain
circumstances; prohibiting persons convicted of certain violent crimes from being paroled
until having served a certain portion of a sentence; requiring persons convicted of certain
violent crimes to be given a certain review after having served a certain portion of a

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