FIRST REGULAR SESSION

HOUSE BILL NO. 254

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE KELLY (27).

Read 1st time January 4, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

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AN ACT

To repeal section 217.305, RSMo 2000, relating to delivery of prisoners, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:

Section A. Section 217.305, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 217.305, to read as follows:

217.305. 1. The sheriff or other officer charged with the delivery of persons committed to the department for confinement in a correctional center shall deliver the person to the reception and diagnostic center designated by the director at times and dates as designated by the director and shall receive a certificate of delivery of the offender from the center.

2. Appropriate information relating to the offender shall be provided to the department in a written or electronic format, at or before the time the offender is delivered to the department, including, but not limited to:

(1) A copy of the sentence received from the clerk of the sentencing court. If provided in written form, this document shall be certified by the court;

(2) All other judgment, sentencing and commitment orders of the court, or such documents as authorized by the prosecuting attorney or circuit attorney or required by the department;

(3) Further information regarding the offender's age, crime for which sentenced and circumstances surrounding the crime and sentence, personal history, which may include facts related to his home environment, work habits and previous convictions and commitments. Such information shall be prepared by the prosecuting attorney of the county or circuit attorney of any city not within a county who was charged with the offender's prosecution;

(4) Information regarding all significant aspects of the offender's physical and mental condition, including any currently prescribed medication and any attempts to commit suicide. Such information shall be prepared by the sheriff or other officer charged with delivering the offender to the department and shall include copies of all medical and mental health documents in the possession of jail personnel relating to the offender.


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