SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 2558, 2921, 3055
PRINTER'S NO. 4022
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1855
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY BERNSTINE, SAINATO, KAUFFMAN, STEPHENS, SNYDER,
MILLARD, MOUL, DeLUCA, ZABEL, KEEFER, READSHAW, POLINCHOCK,
KAIL, JONES, MARSHALL, KORTZ, ROEBUCK, MUSTELLO, WHEELAND,
ROTHMAN, ORTITAY, SCHMITT, IRVIN, PICKETT, HELM, JOZWIAK,
GILLESPIE, BARRAR, GLEIM, EVERETT, BURNS, TOOHIL, GILLEN,
NESBIT, STRUZZI AND DUSH, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
SENATOR BAKER, JUDICIARY, IN SENATE, AS AMENDED, JUNE 24, 2020
AN ACT
Amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
Parole, further providing for parole power.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6137(k) of Title 61 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
adding subsections to read:
§ 6137. Parole power.
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(f.1) Violent offenses while incarcerated.--The board may
not release on parole a person convicted of a violent offense
committed while incarcerated for at least 24 months following
the expiration of the minimum term of imprisonment fixed by the
court or by the Board of Pardons in a sentence which has been
reduced by commutation or 24 months following the conviction,
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