This bill addresses provisions related to the Board of Pardons and Parole. This bill: - adjusts provisions related to when and how the Board of Pardons and Parole (the board) provides notice of upcoming parole, pardon, or other hearings regarding an offender to the relevant:law enforcement agency;prosecution agency;court; andvictim; - requires the board, if considering whether to parole an offender who has previously been paroled and had the offender's parole terminated 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; - prohibits the board, when determining whether parole should be granted or terminated for an offender, from considering prison capacity, bed availability, or institutional population levels; - prohibits the board from paroling an offender who has not completed any ordered treatment or programing while incarcerated; - allows the board 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; - prohibits the board from re-paroling an offender who has been charged with committing a violent felony during the offender's previous parole; - prohibits an offender from taking possession of a written statement, or a copy of the written statement, from a victim of the offender's offense that is written to the board; - 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; and - provides that an offender is required to have an adequate opportunity to view and examine a victim's written statement to the board in a location determined by the board but requires the board to ensure that the offender cannot reproduce the victim's statement in any manner.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 77-27-1, 77-27-5, 77-27-9, 77-27-9.5, 77-27-9.7