This bill addresses provisions related to offenders. This bill: - allows a court to order the Division of Adult Probation and Parole to supervise an individual convicted of class B misdemeanors under certain circumstances; - requires the Board of Pardons and Parole (board), if considering whether to parole an offender who has previously been paroled and had the offender's parole revoked due to a new criminal offense, to consider the facts and circumstances of the new criminal offense in determining whether the offender should be paroled again; - allows the board, with certain exceptions, to only consider a pardon for an offender who has committed an offense that requires the offender to register on the Sex, Kidnap, and Child Abuse Offender Registry (the registry) if:for a sex offender required to register on the registry for 10 years, 10 years have passed from when the sex offender entered the community after the sex offender's conviction; orfor a sex offender required to register on the registry for the sex offender's lifetime, 20 years have passed from when the sex offender entered the community after the sex offender's conviction; - does not allow an offender who has committed an offense that requires the offender to register on the registry at the time the offender is sentenced to receive a certificate of eligibility of expungement from the Bureau of Criminal Identification; and - adds to the requirements for the board to meet before the board may parole an offender before the offender's minimum term of imprisonment has been met.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 77-27-1, 77-27-5, 77-27-9, 77-27-9.5, 77-27-9.7
Substitute #1: 64-14-204, 77-18-105, 77-27-1, 77-27-5, 77-27-9
Substitute #2: 64-14-204, 77-18-105, 77-27-5, 77-27-9
Amended 2/17/2026 13:02:707: 64-14-204, 77-18-105, 77-27-5, 77-27-9
Substitute #3: 64-14-204, 77-18-105, 77-27-5, 77-27-9
Substitute #4: 77-27-5, 77-27-9
Substitute #5: 77-27-5, 77-27-9
Enrolled: 64-14-204, 77-18-105, 77-27-5, 77-27-9
Substitute #6: 64-14-204, 77-18-105, 77-27-5, 77-27-9