PRINTER'S NO. 894
No. 836 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY SAYLOR, MASLAND, CLARK, TRUE, DeLUCA, EGOLF,
GEIST, HARHAI, HERSHEY, KAISER, LAUGHLIN, LYNCH, McCALL,
McNAUGHTON, MELIO, S. MILLER, NICKOL, PLATTS, RAYMOND,
READSHAW, SCHRODER, SCRIMENTI, STABACK, STERN, SURRA,
E. Z. TAYLOR, TIGUE AND TRELLO, MARCH 10, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 10, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 6, 1941 (P.L.861, No.323), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act to create a uniform and exclusive system
3 for the administration of parole in this Commonwealth;
4 providing state probation services; establishing the
5 'Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole'; conferring and
6 defining its jurisdiction, duties, powers and functions;
7 including the supervision of persons placed upon probation
8 and parole in certain designated cases; providing for the
9 method of appointment of its members; regulating the
10 appointment, removal and discharge of its officers, clerks
11 and employes; dividing the Commonwealth into administrative
12 districts for purposes of probation and parole; fixing the
13 salaries of members of the board and of certain other
14 officers and employes thereof; making violations of certain
15 provisions of this act misdemeanors; providing penalties
16 therefor; and for other cognate purposes, and making an
17 appropriation," further providing for the power to parole.
18 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
19 hereby enacts as follows:
20 Section 1. Section 21 of the act of August 6, 1941 (P.L.861,
21 No.323), referred to as the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
22 Parole Law, is amended by adding a subsection to read:
23 Section 21. * * *
24 (e) The board may conduct a medical or psychiatric
1 evaluation of an inmate convicted of an offense enumerated in 18
2 Pa.C.S. Ch. 31 (relating to sexual offenses) for purposes of
3 determining whether the inmate is suitable for the
4 administration of drug treatment to suppress aberrant sexual
5 behavior. The board shall have the discretion, based on the
6 medical and psychiatric evaluation, to require the inmate to
7 submit to drug treatment in conjunction with any psychiatric
8 treatment as a condition of parole.
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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