Bill Information

An Act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) and 44 (Law and Justice) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, imposing a central or regional booking fee on criminal convictions to fund the start-up, operation or maintenance of a central or regional booking center; providing for a countywide booking center plan; providing for definitions of "board" and "department"; further providing for composition of the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, for powers and duties and for adoption of guidelines for sentencing; providing for adoption of guidelines for resentencing, adoption of guidelines for parole and adoption of recommitment ranges following revocation of parole by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole; further providing for publication of guidelines, for sentencing generally, for sentence of total confinement, for sentencing proceeding and place of confinement and for information required upon commitment and subsequent disposition and for referral to State intermediate punishment program; providing for work release or other court order and for recidivism risk reduction incentive; and making a related repeal.