PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 3464 PRINTER'S NO. 3558
No. 2580 Session of 1996
INTRODUCED BY BOSCOLA, CALTAGIRONE, GEIST, STURLA, COY, HALUSKA,
CARN, BROWNE, HERSHEY, ROBERTS, DeLUCA, MELIO, HORSEY, WAUGH,
SURRA, YOUNGBLOOD, STEELMAN, LUCYK, ROONEY, JOSEPHS,
McGEEHAN, MERRY AND RAMOS, MAY 1, 1996
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MAY 14, 1996
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of December 19, 1990 (P.L.1391, No.215),
2 entitled "An act providing for motivational boot camps for
3 certain youthful offenders; and providing for selection of
4 participants," further providing for definitions.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 3 of the act of December 19, 1990
8 (P.L.1391, No.215), known as the Motivational Boot Camp Act, is
9 amended to read:
10 Section 3. Definitions.
11 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
12 have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
13 context clearly indicates otherwise:
14 "Commission." The Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing.
15 "Department." The Department of Corrections of the
16 Commonwealth.
17 "Eligible inmate." A person sentenced to a term of
1 confinement under the jurisdiction of the Department of
2 Corrections who is serving a term of confinement, the minimum of
3 which is not more than two years and the maximum of which is
4 five years or less[ OR AN INMATE WHO IS SERVING A TERM OF <--
5 CONFINEMENT THE MINIMUM OF WHICH IS NOT MORE THAN FIVE YEARS
6 WHERE THAT INMATE IS WITHIN TWO YEARS OF COMPLETING HIS MINIMUM
7 TERM, and who]; has not reached 35 years of age at the time he <--
8 is approved for participation in the motivational boot camp <--
9 program[.]; and was sentenced under Level 2 or 3 of the Standard
10 Range Chart of the Sentencing Guidelines, 204 Pa. Code §§ 303.1
11 et seq (relating to sentencing guidelines). The term shall
12 include parole violators. BOOT CAMP PROGRAM. The term shall not <--
13 include any inmate serving a sentence for any violation of one
14 or more of the following provisions:
15 18 Pa.C.S. § 2501 (relating to criminal homicide).
16 18 Pa.C.S. § 2901 (relating to kidnapping).
17 18 Pa.C.S. § 3121 (relating to rape).
18 18 Pa.C.S. § 3123 (relating to involuntary deviate sexual
19 intercourse).
20 18 Pa.C.S. § 3701(a)(1)(i), (ii) or (iii) (relating to
21 robbery).
22 "Motivational boot camp." A program in which eligible
23 inmates participate [for a period of six months] for not more <--
24 than the last two years of their sentence in a humane program
25 for motivational boot camp programs which shall provide for
26 rigorous physical activity, intensive regimentation and
27 discipline, work on public projects, substance abuse treatment
28 services licensed by the Department of Health, ventilation
29 therapy, continuing education, vocational training and
30 prerelease counseling.
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1 "Secretary." The Secretary of Corrections of the
2 Commonwealth.
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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