ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                             Ch. 444

Article - Correctional Services

3-711.

If an inmate is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for a crime committed
while on parole OR MANDATORY SUPERVISION and the parole OR MANDATORY
SUPERVISION is revoked, diminution credits that were awarded before the inmate's
release on parole OR MANDATORY SUPERVISION may not be applied toward the
inmate's term of confinement on return to the Division.

7-502.

(a)     An individual on mandatory supervision remains in legal custody until the
expiration of the individual's full term.

(b)     An individual on mandatory supervision is subject to:

(1)     all laws, rules, regulations, and conditions that apply to parolees; and

(2)     any special conditions established by a commissioner.

(c)      If an inmate is convicted and sentenced to imprisonment for a [violent]
crime committed while on mandatory supervision and the mandatory supervision is
revoked, diminution credits that were awarded before the inmate's release on
mandatory supervision may not be applied toward the inmate's term of confinement
on return to the Division.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall be
construed to apply only prospectively and may not be applied or interpreted to have
any effect on or application to a crime committed while on mandatory supervision
before the effective date of this Act.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 2003.

Approved May 22, 2003.

CHAPTER 444
(House Bill 715)

AN ACT concerning

Sediment Control, Stormwater Management, and Wetlands, and Water
Pollution Control Programs - Violations - Criminal and Civil Penalties

FOR the purpose of altering the amounts of certain criminal penalties applicable to
certain sediment control, stormwater management, and tidal and nontidal
wetlands program violations; authorizing certain courts to order restoration of
certain areas in the event of certain criminal violations of certain sediment
control and stormwater management programs; altering the amounts of certain
civil penalties applicable to certain sediment control, stormwater management,

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