Sen. Randolph Bracy

Criminal Sentencing; Increasing the number of sentence points below which the court is required to impose a nonstate prison sanction under certain circumstances; providing that a sentencing judge’s decision regarding sentencing is guided by the computed recommended sentencing range, from the lowest permissible sentence to the highest recommended prison sentence; increasing the minimum number of sentence points for a state prison sanction; revising the calculation of the lowest permissible sentence, etc.

Background Screening; Prohibiting certain entities that contract for inmate labor from excluding certain persons from consideration for employment or from disqualifying certain persons from employment; prohibiting an entity from inquiring into or considering an applicant’s criminal history before the applicant has received a conditional offer of employment; prohibiting an entity from considering specified information in connection with an application for employment; requiring an entity to consider specified factors when determining whether an applicant may be disqualified from employment, etc.

Reemployment Assistance; Increasing the maximum weekly and yearly benefit amounts for reemployment assistance; increasing the duration of such benefits; reenacting provisions relating to attorney fees and short-time compensation, etc.

Use of Force by Law Enforcement Officers; Requiring that a court, in a case involving the use of force by a law enforcement officer in making an arrest, make a finding regarding the reasonableness of the officer’s actions; requiring that the court consider certain factors in determining whether the use of force was justifiable, etc.

Gain-time; Revising a principle of the Criminal Punishment Code relating to a prisoner’s required minimum term of imprisonment; revising the incentive gain-time that the Department of Corrections may grant a prisoner, etc.

Law Enforcement Agency Data Reporting; Requiring each law enforcement agency to collect and report to the Department of Law Enforcement specified information on a monthly basis, etc.

Applied Behavior Analysis Services; Revising the definition of the term “clinic” to exempt certain groups of individuals providing applied behavior analysis services from health care clinic licensure requirements; revising the definition of the term “private instructional personnel” to include certain registered behavior technicians, etc.

Statewide Police Misconduct Registry; Requiring the Department of Law Enforcement to establish by a certain date and maintain a statewide police misconduct registry; specifying information that the registry must contain on all state and local law enforcement officers; requiring the head of each state and local law enforcement agency to periodically submit specified information to the department beginning on a specified date, etc.

Sentencing Calculations Under the Criminal Punishment Code; Providing that a sentencing judge’s decision regarding sentencing is guided by a computed recommended sentencing range, from the lowest permissible sentence to the highest recommended prison sentence; increasing the minimum number of sentence points for a state prison sanction; revising the calculation of the lowest permissible sentence, etc.

Officer Training for Initial Certification; Requiring the Criminal Justice Standards and Training Commission to establish and maintain standards for instruction of officers in the subjects of implicit bias and deescalation of conflict to minimize violence; requiring every basic skills course required for officers to obtain initial certification to include such training, etc.