Honorable Abel Herrero, Chair, House Committee on Corrections
FROM:
Jerry McGinty, Director, Legislative Budget Board
IN RE:
HB1742 by Leach (Relating to increasing the minimum term of imprisonment and changing the eligibility for community supervision, mandatory supervision, and parole for persons convicted of intoxication manslaughter.), As Introduced
The bill would make the offense of intoxication manslaughter punishable with a five-year minimum term of imprisonment and make the minimum term of imprisonment required as a condition of community supervision for the offense not less than five years in certain circumstances. The bill would make eligibility for release on parole or to mandatory supervision for such an offense contingent on actual calendar time served, without consideration of good conduct time, being equal to at least five years.
Increasing the penalty for an existing offense may result in additional demands upon state correctional resources due to a possible increase in the number of individuals confined and in the length of stay for individuals sentenced to a term of confinement.
In fiscal year 2022, there were 211 individuals arrested, 26 individuals placed on community supervision, and 125 individuals admitted into a state correctional institution for the offense of intoxication manslaughter. It is assumed that any impact on state correctional populations or on the demand for state correctional resources would not be significant.