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Relating to minimum sentences for certain offenders and parole and work release eligibility
Topics:Crime & corrections
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedFebruary 26, 2020
- Stopped: SubcommitteeDied when the General Assembly ended
- Next: House committee
- Next: Passes the House
- Next: Senate committee
- Next: Passes the Senate
- Next: To the Governor
- Next: Signed into law
Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Courts could give shorter sentences for certain serious crimes to people who were 16 years old or younger when they committed the offense. This rule also applies to people who had never been convicted of a violent felony before the crime happened.1
Read the official explanation
This bill allows a court to sentence a person to less than the minimum sentence described in Code section 902.12 for certain felonies if the person was either years of age or younger at the time of the commission of the offense or had not previously been convicted of a forcible felony as defined in Code section 702.11 at the time of the commission of the offense. The bill makes conforming Code changes. “Forcible felony” means any felonious child endangerment, assault, murder, sexual abuse, kidnapping, robbery, human trafficking, arson in the first degree, or burglary in the first degree.
Iowa Code it changes
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