HB 549

Abstract

Department of Corrections; earned sentence credits;robbery. Specifies that any person serving a sentence on a Class2 felony for committing robbery and causing serious bodily injuryto or the death of any other person is subject to a maximum 4.5 earnedsentence credits for each 30 days served. Consequently, a personserving a sentence on a robbery that is a Class 3, Class 5, or Class6 felony is not subject to the maximum 4.5 earned sentence credits and may be eligible for the four-level classification system forthe awarding and calculation of earned sentence credits to becomeeffective on July 1, 2022. The bill requires the calculation of earnedsentence credits to apply retroactively to the entire sentence ofany inmate who is confined in a state correctional facility and participatingin the earned sentence credit system on July 1, 2022, and was (i)convicted of robbery, as such crime was in effect prior to July 1,2021, provided that such person, during the commission of such robbery,did not cause serious bodily injury to or the death of another personor (ii) convicted of robbery punishable as a Class 3, Class 5, orClass 6 felony on or after July 1, 2021.