ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Fifty-sixth Legislature

Second Regular Session

 

HB 2433: mental health transition program; release

Sponsor: Representative Livingston, LD 28

Committee on Military Affairs & Public Safety

Overview

Permits early release of inmates into the Mental Health Transition Pilot Program (Pilot Program) under specified circumstances.

☐ Prop 105 (45 votes) ☐ Prop 108 (40 votes) ☐ Emergency (40 votes) ☐ Fiscal NoteHistory

The Department of Corrections (DOC) operates a Transition Program for eligible inmates, offering up to 90 days of transition services in the community with the goal of reducing recidivism. Eligible inmates must be released from confinement into the Transition Program up to three months earlier than their earliest release date based on risk and need as determined by the Director of DOC; early release does not apply to those determined not to be low risk (Title 31, Chapter 2, Article 6).

In 2021, the Legislature created the Pilot Program to provide inmates, diagnosed as seriously mentally ill, with mental health transition services in the community. Eligible inmates are required to receive services in the program for at least 90 days. Eligible inmates may not be released from confinement before their earliest release date (A.R.S. § 31-291).

Provisions

1.   Requires an inmate in the Pilot Program, who has not been convicted of sexual or specified violent crime offences, to be released from confinement up to three months earlier than his earliest release date based on risk and need according to rules adopted by the Director of DOC. (Sec. 1)

2.   Stipulates that an inmate in the Pilot Program who is not low risk may not be released from confinement earlier than his earliest release date. (Sec. 1)

3.   Makes conforming changes. (Sec. 1)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

---------- DOCUMENT FOOTER ---------

                        HB 2433

Initials NM    Page 0 Military Affairs & Public Safety

 

---------- DOCUMENT FOOTER ---------