Facilitates absentee voting in local correctional facilities and designates the division of probation, the department of correctional services, and the division of parole as assisting agencies for voter registration purposes. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Requires the commissioner of correctional services to provide notice by certified mail, at least 24 months prior to a correctional facility's closure, to certain local governments, employee labor organizations and employees employed within such correctional facility. / Sponsor: LITTLE Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Authorizes imposition of a sentence of conditional discharge pending the completion of a substance abuse treatment program licensed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and approved by the division of probation and correctional alternatives for first or second conviction of certain controlled substance possession or marihuana possession offenses provided such offender has no prior violent felony convictions. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Relates to the protection of victims of domestic violence act, which requires defendants to wear global positioning systems monitoring the location of the defendant. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Creates the offenses of aggravated sale of a firearm and aggravated sale of a firearm to a minor. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Relates to the segregated confinement of inmates with serious mental illness. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Establishes offenses relating to criminal street gang enterprises and the abatement of premises used for the activities of such enterprises. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Establishes a pilot project for placement of inmates close to home; provides that such project would house inmates who are parents of minor children in the correctional facility located in closest proximity to the primary place of residence of any such inmate's minor child or children. / Sponsor: RIVERA Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Relates to the modification of the procedure for interviews of parole applicants and to the disclosure of parole applicant records. / Sponsor: DUANE Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Relates to sex offender assessment instruments. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Requires that websites providing inmate information be searchable by the inmate's name, former name or alias. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Establishes the department of corrections and community supervision shall provide an inmate, upon his or her discharge, with educational information about the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), instructions about how to obtain free HIV testing and referrals to community-based HIV prevention, education and counseling resources. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Relates to certificates of relief from disabilities issued by the department of corrections and community supervision. / Sponsor: DIAZ Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Requires that notice be provided to any officer or employee of the department of correctional services whose personal information is the subject of a subpoena duces tecum. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Defines the term "necessary court appearance" for purposes of the determination of a crime victim's award to include any part of a proceeding from arraignment through sentencing, pre and post trial hearings and hearings before the parole board. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Establishes a commission to study and develop a plan for improving education in state prisons. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Relates to enforcement of orders of child support against inmates; requires that inmates be notified of their right to seek modification of child support orders; provides a 180 day stay of enforcement following release; makes provisions permitting modification applicable to inmates incarcerated prior to effective date of such amendments. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Alters the composition of the state board of parole to include members to be appointed upon the recommendation of the four legislative leaders. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Relates to expanding prison work release program eligibility and participation. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

Allows certain inmates to be granted a merit time allowance; allows inmates who are victims are able to prove that they were subjected to substantial physical, sexual or psychological abuse, that the abuse was inflicted by a member of their same family or household or a member of the person's immediate family, and that the abuse was a substantial factor in causing them to commit the crime to be eligible to earn merit time in the amount of one-third off either their minimum sentence (if inmate has an indeterminate sentence) or their flat sentence; allows such inmates to be eligible for presumptive release; expands the criteria that a person in custody of the department of correctional services may meet in order to earn merit time. / Sponsor: MONTGOMERY Committee: CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION