Chapter 947 — Chapter 947
43 sections in this chapter.
Fla. Stat. § 947.001 Short title
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This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Objective Parole Guidelines Act of 1978.”
Fla. Stat. § 947.002 Intent
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(1) It is the purpose of this chapter to establish an objective means for determining and establishing parole dates for inmates.(2) Objective parole criteria will be designed to give primary weight to the seriousness of the offender’s present criminal offense and the offender’s p…
Fla. Stat. § 947.005 Definitions
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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:(1) “Authority” means the Control Release Authority.(2) “Child care facility” has the same meaning as provided in s. 402.302.(3) “Commission” means the Florida Commission on Offender Review.(4) “Department” m…
Fla. Stat. § 947.01 Florida Commission on Offender Review; creation; number of members
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A Florida Commission on Offender Review is created to consist of six members who are residents of the state. Effective July 1, 1996, the membership of the commission shall be three members.
Fla. Stat. § 947.02 Florida Commission on Offender Review; members, appointment
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(1) Except as provided in s. 947.021, the members of the Florida Commission on Offender Review shall be appointed by the Governor and Cabinet from a list of eligible applicants submitted by a parole qualifications committee. The appointments of members of the commission shall be …
Fla. Stat. § 947.021 Florida Commission on Offender Review; expedited appointments
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Whenever the Legislature decreases the membership of the commission, all terms of office shall expire, notwithstanding any law to the contrary. Under such circumstances, the Governor and Cabinet shall expedite the appointment of commissioners. Notwithstanding the parole qualifica…
Fla. Stat. § 947.03 Commissioners; tenure and removal
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(1) Upon the expiration of the term of any member of the commission, a successor shall be appointed by the Governor and Cabinet for a term of 6 years, unless otherwise provided by law. No person is eligible to be appointed for more than two consecutive 6-year terms.(2) Vacancies …
Fla. Stat. § 947.04 Organization of commission; officers; offices
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(1) Before July 1 of each even-numbered year, the Governor and Cabinet shall select a chair who shall serve for a period of 2 years and until a successor is selected and qualified. The Governor and Cabinet shall, at the same time that a chair is selected, select a vice chair to s…
Fla. Stat. § 947.045 Federal Grants Trust Fund
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The Federal Grants Trust Fund is hereby created, to be administered by the Florida Commission on Offender Review.(1) Funds to be credited to the trust fund shall consist of receipts from federal grants and shall be used for the various purposes for which the federal funds were in…
Fla. Stat. § 947.05 Seal
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The commission shall adopt an official seal of which the courts shall take judicial notice.
Fla. Stat. § 947.06 Meeting; when commission may act
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The commission shall meet at regularly scheduled intervals and from time to time as may otherwise be determined by the chair. The making of recommendations to the Governor and Cabinet in matters relating to modifications of acts and decisions of the chair as provided in s. 947.04…
Fla. Stat. § 947.07 Rules
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The commission has authority to adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 for its governance, including among other things rules of practice and procedure and rules prescribing qualifications to be possessed by its employees.
Fla. Stat. § 947.071 Rulemaking procedures; indexing of orders
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(1) It is the intent of the Legislature that all rulemaking procedures by the commission be conducted pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act, chapter 120.(2) The only final orders of the commission which shall be indexed pursuant to chapter 120 are:(a) Orders granting parol…
Fla. Stat. § 947.10 Business and political activity upon part of members and full-time employees of commission
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No member of the commission and no full-time employee thereof shall, during her or his service upon or under the commission, engage in any other business or profession or hold any other public office, nor shall she or he serve as the representative of any political party, or any …
Fla. Stat. § 947.11 Legal adviser
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The Department of Legal Affairs shall be the legal adviser of the commission.
Fla. Stat. § 947.12 Members, employees, expenses
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(1) The members of the commission and its employees shall be reimbursed for travel expenses as provided in s. 112.061. All bills for expenses shall be properly receipted, audited, and approved and forwarded to the Chief Financial Officer and shall be paid in a manner and form as …
Fla. Stat. § 947.13 Powers and duties of commission
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(1) The commission shall have the powers and perform the duties of:(a) Determining what persons shall be placed on parole, subject to the provisions of ss. 947.172 and 947.174.(b) Fixing the time and conditions of parole, as provided in this chapter.(c) Determining whether a pers…
Fla. Stat. § 947.135 Mutual participation program
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(1) SHORT TITLE.—This act shall be known and may be cited as the “Mutual Participation Program Act of 1976.”(2) LEGISLATIVE INTENT.—It is the intent of the Legislature to:(a) Involve the department and the commission in program planning with the offender while the offender is inc…
Fla. Stat. § 947.1405 Conditional release program
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(1) This section and s. 947.141 may be cited as the “Conditional Release Program Act.”(2) Any inmate who:(a) Is convicted of a crime committed on or after October 1, 1988, and before January 1, 1994, and any inmate who is convicted of a crime committed on or after January 1, 1994…
Fla. Stat. § 947.141 Violations of conditional release, control release, or conditional medical release or addiction-recovery supervision
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(1) If a member of the commission or a duly authorized representative of the commission has reasonable grounds to believe that an offender who is on release supervision under s. 947.1405, s. 947.146, s. 947.149, or s. 944.4731 has violated the terms and conditions of the release …
Fla. Stat. § 947.146 Control Release Authority
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(1) There is created a Control Release Authority which shall be composed of the members of the Florida Commission on Offender Review and which shall have the same chair as the commission. The authority shall use such commission staff as it determines is necessary to carry out its…
Fla. Stat. § 947.147 Victim restitution as condition of control release
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If the defendant is released under control release, any restitution ordered under s. 775.089 shall be a condition of such release. The Control Release Authority may revoke the offender’s control release if the defendant fails to comply with such order. In determining whether to r…
Fla. Stat. § 947.149 Conditional medical release
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(1) The commission shall, in conjunction with the department, establish the conditional medical release program. An inmate is eligible for consideration for release under the conditional medical release program when the inmate, because of an existing medical or physical condition…
Fla. Stat. § 947.15 Reports
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On or before January 1 of each year, the commission shall make a written report to the Governor and Cabinet of its activities together with a full and detailed financial statement, copies of which shall be sent to the Department of Legal Affairs and to such other officials and pe…
Fla. Stat. § 947.16 Eligibility for parole; initial parole interviews; powers and duties of commission
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(1) Every person who has been convicted of a felony or who has been convicted of one or more misdemeanors and whose sentence or cumulative sentences total 12 months or more, who is confined in execution of the judgment of the court, and whose record during confinement or while un…
Fla. Stat. § 947.165 Objective parole guidelines
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(1) The commission shall develop and implement objective parole guidelines which shall be the criteria upon which parole decisions are made. The objective parole guidelines shall be developed according to an acceptable research method and shall be based on the seriousness of offe…
Fla. Stat. § 947.168 Consideration for persons serving parole-eligible and parole-ineligible sentences
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(1) A person serving a parole-eligible sentence who subsequently receives a parole-ineligible sentence shall be considered for parole on the parole-eligible sentence.(2) A grant of parole on the parole-eligible sentence shall result in the initiation of service of the parole-inel…
Fla. Stat. § 947.172 Establishment of presumptive parole release date
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(1) The hearing examiner shall conduct an initial interview in accordance with the provisions of s. 947.16. This interview shall include introduction and explanation of the objective parole guidelines as they relate to presumptive and effective parole release dates and an explana…
Fla. Stat. § 947.173 Review of presumptive parole release date
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(1) An inmate may request one review of his or her initial presumptive parole release date established according to s. 947.16(1) if the inmate shows cause in writing, with individual particularities, within 60 days after the date the inmate is notified of the decision on the pres…
Fla. Stat. § 947.174 Subsequent interviews
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(1)(a) For any inmate, except an inmate convicted of an offense enumerated in paragraph (b), whose presumptive parole release date falls more than 2 years after the date of the initial interview, a hearing examiner shall schedule an interview for review of the presumptive parole …
Fla. Stat. § 947.1745 Establishment of effective parole release date
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If the inmate’s institutional conduct has been satisfactory, the presumptive parole release date shall become the effective parole release date as follows:(1) Within 90 days before the presumptive parole release date, a hearing examiner shall conduct a final interview with the in…
Fla. Stat. § 947.1746 Establishment of effective parole release date
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Within 30 days of the receipt of new information or upon receipt of a written recommendation from the department that an inmate be considered for mitigation of the authorized presumptive parole release date, the commission may, at its discretion, provide for a final interview to …
Fla. Stat. § 947.1747 Community control as a special condition of parole
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Upon the establishment of an effective parole release date as provided for in ss. 947.1745 and 947.1746, the commission may, as a special condition of parole, require an inmate to be placed in the community control program of the Department of Corrections as described in s. 948.1…
Fla. Stat. § 947.18 Conditions of parole
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No person shall be placed on parole merely as a reward for good conduct or efficient performance of duties assigned in prison. No person shall be placed on parole until and unless the commission finds that there is reasonable probability that, if the person is placed on parole, h…
Fla. Stat. § 947.181 Fines, fees, restitution, or other costs ordered to be paid as conditions of parole
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(1) The commission shall require the payment of fines, fees, restitution, or other court-ordered costs as a condition of parole unless the commission finds reasons to the contrary. Restitution to the aggrieved party for injury, damage, or loss caused by the offense for which the …
Fla. Stat. § 947.185 Application for intellectual disability services as condition of parole
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The Florida Commission on Offender Review may require as a condition of parole that any inmate who has been diagnosed as having an intellectual disability as defined in s. 393.063 shall, upon release, apply for services from the Agency for Persons with Disabilities.
Fla. Stat. § 947.19 Terms of parole
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(1) The commission, upon authorizing an effective parole release date, shall specify in writing the terms and conditions of the parole, a certified copy of which shall be given to the parolee.(2) A parolee may, within 120 days of receipt of the certified copy of the terms and con…
Fla. Stat. § 947.20 Rules of commission
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The commission shall adopt general rules on the terms and conditions of parole and what shall constitute the violation thereof and may make special rules to govern particular cases. Such rules, both general and special, may include, among other things, a requirement that the paro…
Fla. Stat. § 947.21 Violations of parole
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(1) A violation of the terms of parole may render the parolee liable to arrest and a return to prison to serve out the term for which the parolee was sentenced.(2) An offender whose parole is revoked may, at the discretion of the commission, be credited with any portion of the ti…
Fla. Stat. § 947.22 Authority to arrest parole violators with or without warrant
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(1) If a member of the commission or a duly authorized representative of the commission has reasonable grounds to believe that a parolee has violated the terms and conditions of her or his parole in a material respect, such member or representative may issue a warrant for the arr…
Fla. Stat. § 947.23 Action of commission upon arrest of parolee
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(1) Within 30 days after the arrest of a person charged with violation of the terms and conditions of her or his parole, the parolee shall be afforded a prompt preliminary hearing, conducted by a member of the commission or its duly authorized representative, at or near the place…
Fla. Stat. § 947.24 Discharge from parole supervision or release supervision
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(1) When a person is placed on parole, control release, or conditional release, the commission shall determine the period of time the person will be under parole supervision or release supervision in the following manner:(a) If the person is being paroled or released under superv…
Fla. Stat. § 947.26 Cooperation of custodian of prisoner; right of access
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The warden or jailer of any jail or prison in which persons convicted of crime may be confined and all officers or employees thereof shall at all times cooperate with the commission and, upon its request, shall furnish it with such information as they may have respecting any pers…