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Florida Laws: FL Statutes - Title XLVII Chapter 947 Parole Commission
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- 947.001 Short title.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Objective Parole Guidelines Act of 1978." History.--s. 2, ch. 78-417; s. 34, ch. 83-131;...
- 947.002 Intent.
(1) It is the purpose of this chapter to establish an objective means for determining and establishing parole dates for inmates. (2) Objective parole criteria will be...
- 947.005 Definitions.
As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: (1) "Commission" means the Parole Commission. (2) "Department" means the Department of Corrections. (3) "Secretary" means the...
- 947.01 Parole Commission; creation; number of members.
A Parole Commission is created to consist of six members who are residents of the state. Effective July 1, 1996, the membership of the commission...
- 947.02 Parole Commission; members, appointment.
(1) Except as provided in s. 947.021, the members of the Parole Commission shall be appointed by the Governor and Cabinet from a list of eligible...
- 947.021 Parole Commission; expedited appointments.
Whenever the Legislature decreases the membership of the commission, all terms of office shall expire, notwithstanding any law to the contrary. Under such circumstances, the...
- 947.03 Commissioners; tenure and removal.
(1) Upon the expiration of the term of any member of the commission, a successor shall be appointed by the Governor and Cabinet for a term...
- 947.04 Organization of commission; officers; offices.
(1) Before July 1 of each even-numbered year, the Governor and Cabinet shall select a chair who shall serve for a period of 2 years and...
- 947.045 Federal Grants Trust Fund.
The Federal Grants Trust Fund is hereby created, to be administered by the Florida Parole Commission. (1) Funds to be credited to the trust fund shall...
- 947.05 Seal.
The commission shall adopt an official seal of which the courts shall take judicial notice. History.--s. 3, ch. 20519, 1941; s. 34, ch. 83-131; s....
- 947.06 Meeting; when commission may act.
The commission shall meet at regularly scheduled intervals and from time to time as may otherwise be determined by the chair. The making of recommendations...
- 947.07 Rules.
The commission has authority to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 for its governance, including among other things rules of practice and procedure...
- 947.071 Rulemaking procedures; indexing of orders.
(1) It is the intent of the Legislature that all rulemaking procedures by the commission be conducted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, chapter 120. (2) The...
- 947.10 Business and political activity upon part of members and full-time employees of commission.
No member of the commission and no full-time employee thereof shall, during her or his service upon or under the commission, engage in any other...
- 947.11 Legal adviser.
The Department of Legal Affairs shall be the legal adviser of the commission. History.--s. 8, ch. 20519, 1941; ss. 11, 35, ch. 69-106; s. 34,...
- 947.12 Members, employees, expenses.
(1) The members of the commission and its employees shall be reimbursed for travel expenses as provided in s. 112.061. All bills for expenses shall be...
- 947.13 Powers and duties of commission.
(1) The commission shall have the powers and perform the duties of: (a) Determining what persons shall be placed on parole, subject to the provisions of ss....
- 947.135 Mutual participation program.
(1) SHORT TITLE.--This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Mutual Participation Program Act of 1976." (2) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.--It is the intent of the...
- 947.1405 Conditional release program.
(1) This section and s. 947.141 may be cited as the "Conditional Release Program Act." (2) Any inmate who: (a) Is convicted of a crime committed on or...
- 947.141 Violations of conditional release, control release, or conditional medical release or addiction-recovery supervision.
(1) If a member of the commission or a duly authorized representative of the commission has reasonable grounds to believe that an offender who is on...
- 947.146 Control Release Authority.
(1) There is created a Control Release Authority which shall be composed of the members of the Parole Commission and which shall have the same chair...
- 947.147 Victim restitution as condition of control release.
If the defendant is released under control release, any restitution ordered under s. 775.089 shall be a condition of such release. The Control Release Authority...
- 947.149 Conditional medical release.
(1) The commission shall, in conjunction with the department, establish the conditional medical release program. An inmate is eligible for consideration for release under the conditional...
- 947.15 Reports.
On or before January 1 of each year, the commission shall make a written report to the Governor and Cabinet of its activities together with...
- 947.16 Eligibility for parole; initial parole interviews; powers and duties of commission.
(1) Every person who has been convicted of a felony or who has been convicted of one or more misdemeanors and whose sentence or cumulative sentences...
- 947.165 Objective parole guidelines.
(1) The commission shall develop and implement objective parole guidelines which shall be the criteria upon which parole decisions are made. The objective parole guidelines shall...
- 947.168 Consideration for persons serving parole-eligible and parole-ineligible sentences.
(1) A person serving a parole-eligible sentence who subsequently receives a parole-ineligible sentence shall be considered for parole on the parole-eligible sentence. (2) A grant of parole...
- 947.172 Establishment of presumptive parole release date.
(1) The hearing examiner shall conduct an initial interview in accordance with the provisions of s. 947.16. This interview shall include introduction and explanation of the...
- 947.173 Review of presumptive parole release date.
(1) An inmate may request one review of his or her initial presumptive parole release date established according to s. 947.16(1) if the inmate shows cause...
- 947.174 Subsequent interviews.
(1)(a) For any inmate, except an inmate convicted of an offense enumerated in paragraph (b), whose presumptive parole release date falls more than 2 years after...
- 947.1745 Establishment of effective parole release date.
If the inmate's institutional conduct has been satisfactory, the presumptive parole release date shall become the effective parole release date as follows: (1) Within 90 days...
- 947.1746 Establishment of effective parole release date.
Within 30 days of the receipt of new information or upon receipt of a written recommendation from the department that an inmate be considered for...
- 947.1747 Community control as a special condition of parole.
Upon the establishment of an effective parole release date as provided for in ss. 947.1745 and 947.1746, the commission may, as a special condition of...
- 947.18 Conditions of parole.
No person shall be placed on parole merely as a reward for good conduct or efficient performance of duties assigned in prison. No person shall...
- 947.181 Victim restitution as condition of parole.
(1)(a) The Parole Commission shall require as a condition of parole reparation or restitution to the aggrieved party for the damage or loss caused by the...
- 947.185 Application for mental retardation services as condition of parole.
The Parole Commission may require as a condition of parole that any inmate who has been diagnosed as mentally retarded as defined in s. 393.063...
- 947.19 Terms of parole.
(1) The commission, upon authorizing an effective parole release date, shall specify in writing the terms and conditions of the parole, a certified copy of which...
- 947.20 Rules of commission.
The commission shall adopt general rules on the terms and conditions of parole and what shall constitute the violation thereof and may make special rules...
- 947.21 Violations of parole.
(1) A violation of the terms of parole may render the parolee liable to arrest and a return to prison to serve out the term for...
- 947.22 Authority to arrest parole violators with or without warrant.
(1) If a member of the commission or a duly authorized representative of the commission has reasonable grounds to believe that a parolee has violated the...
- 947.23 Action of commission upon arrest of parolee.
(1) Within 30 days after the arrest of a person charged with violation of the terms and conditions of her or his parole, the parolee shall...
- 947.24 Discharge from parole supervision or release supervision.
(1) When a person is placed on parole, control release, or conditional release, the commission shall determine the period of time the person will be under...
- 947.26 Cooperation of custodian of prisoner; right of access.
The warden or jailer of any jail or prison in which persons convicted of crime may be confined and all officers or employees thereof shall...
Last modified: March 26, 2010
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