Tennessee HB 385: Sentencing - As enacted, requires the superintendent or jail administrator to notify the department of corrections of the amount of sentence reduction credits for good institutional behavior that a convicted felon should receive for the felon's time incarcerated prior to imposition of sentence instead of the superintendent or jail administrator objecting to an award of credits at the rate of eight days for each month served. - Amends TCA Title 40 and Title 41.

Bill Text

Senate Judiciary 1

Amendment No. 1 to SB0496

Gardenhire
Signature of Sponsor

AMEND Senate Bill No. 496 House Bill No. 385*

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by deleting all language after the enacting clause and substituting:
SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 41-21-236(e), is amended by
deleting the subsection and substituting instead:
(1) Sentence reduction credits for good institutional behavior as authorized by
this section may also be awarded to all convicted felons for the time incarcerated prior to
the imposition of sentence. The total credit that a convicted felon may receive is
calculated by determining the number of days actually served in jail prior to imposition of
sentence and by adding to that number the sentence reduction credits awarded for good
institutional behavior, if any, based upon the number of days served.
(2) The sentence reduction credits authorized by subdivision (e)(1) may be
awarded at the rate of eight (8) days for each month served prior to imposition of
sentence. In order to award credits pursuant to subdivision (e)(1), the superintendent or
jail administrator must provide the department with written documentation evidencing the
inmate's good institutional behavior and stating the number of sentence reduction
credits, if any, the felon should be awarded. The department shall award the number of
sentence reduction credits recommended in the superintendent's or jail administrator's
written documentation.
(3) A convicted felon does not have a right to the credits authorized by
subdivision (e)(1) or a right to appeal the superintendent's or jail administrator's
determination concerning the number of sentence reduction credits a particular felon
should be awarded.

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SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2023, the public welfare requiring it.