2021 Montana Legislature
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bill NO. _____________
INTRODUCED BY _________________________________________________
By Request of the Criminal Justice Oversight Council
A BILL FOR AN ACT ENTITLED: "AN ACT revising laws related to commitments to the department of Corrections; requiring the department to notify a sentencing judge when the department is unable to honor the judge's placement recommendation; and requiring the department to collect and analyze certain data."
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MONTANA:
NEW SECTION. Section 1. Commitments to department -- report to sentencing court -- data. (1) If the department does not honor a placement recommendation made by a district court judge when the judge sentences an offender pursuant to 46-18-201(3)(a)(iv), (3)(a)(vi), or (3)(a)(vii) and includes a placement recommendation, the department shall provide written notice to the sentencing court within 40 days after the placement decision.
(2) The department shall collect and analyze data on:
(a) court placement recommendations and department placement decisions for offenders sentenced pursuant to 46-18-201(3)(a)(iv), (3)(a)(vi), or (3)(a)(vii); and
(b) the number and type of new criminal offenses committed by offenders under the department's supervision.
(3) The department shall collect data on new criminal offenses committed by offenders under the department's supervision retroactively to January 1, 2015.
NEW SECTION. Section 2. Codification instruction. [Section 1] is intended to be codified as an integral part of Title 46, chapter 23, part 10, and the provisions of Title 46, chapter 23, part 10, apply to [section 1].