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116th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 3035
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 12, 2019Mr. Durbin (for himself, Mr. Lee, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Booker, Mr. Blumenthal, Mr. Coons, Ms. Harris, Ms. Klobuchar, Ms. Hirono, and Mr. Leahy) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve before being eligible for
placement in home detention is to be reduced by the amount of good time
credits earned by the prisoner, and for other purposes.
1.
Short title
This Act may be cited as the Elderly Home Detention Pilot Program Technical Corrections Act of 2019.
2.
Credits for certain elderly nonviolent offenders
Section 231(g)(5)(A)(ii) of the Second Chance Act of 2007 (34 U.S.C. 60541(g)(5)(A)(ii)) is amended by striking to which the offender was sentenced and inserting reduced by any credit toward the service of the prisoner’s sentence awarded under section 3624(b) of title 18, United States Code.