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HB400 Alabama 2011 Session

Updated Jul 26, 2021

Summary

Primary Sponsor
Randy WoodRepresentative
Republican
Session
Regular Session 2011
Title
Pardons and Paroles Board, requirement for unanimous affirmative vote to grant parole to a prisoner who has not served certain amount of sentence, eliminated, Sec. 15-22-28 am'd.
Description

Under existing law, the Board of Pardons and Paroles must unanimously vote in the affirmative to grant a parole to any prisoner who has not served at least one third or 10 years of his or her sentence.

This bill would delete this requirement.

Subjects
Pardons and Paroles Board

Bill Actions

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass adopted Roll Call 750

Third Reading Passed

Read for the second time and placed on the calendar

Read for the first time and referred to the House of Representatives committee on Judiciary

Bill Text

Download Introduced PDF

Votes

Motion to Read a Third Time and Pass

May 5, 2011 House Passed
Yes 62
No 13
Abstained 2
Absent 27

Documents

Bill Text (Introduced) HB400 Alabama 2011 Session - Introduced

Source: Alabama Legislature