removes the limitations on the board of parole's authority to deny parole based solely on the seriousness of the offense for certain offenses to allow denial based on the seriousness of the offense for any offense. - Ame, the official text

HOUSE BILL 527
                                                                                               By Scarbrough

                                                   SENATE BILL 455
                                                          By Rose

                                                 AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 40,
                                                            Chapter 35, Part 5, relative to parole.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE:
         SECTION 1. Tennessee Code Annotated, Section 40-35-503(b)(2)(A), is amended by

deleting the subdivision and substituting the following:
                   (2)
                             (A) The release from custody at the time would depreciate the
                   seriousness of the crime of which the incarcerated individual stands convicted or
                   promote disrespect for the law;

         SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon becoming a law, the public welfare requiring it.

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