HB 24-1109

House Bill 24-1109, which has been signed into law in Colorado, mandates that a person on parole who is arrested for a violent crime must be held at a state prison until their parole revocation hearing. The bill also requires the Department of Corrections to pay half the cost of transporting these individuals from local jails to state facilities. Additionally, it changes how parole officers handle arrests by allowing them to decide whether to delay the revocation process instead of automatically deferring it based on pending criminal charges. This law affects parolees and impacts local law enforcement and correctional facilities financially and operationally.

Official Summary

The bill requires a parolee who is arrested for allegedly committing a crime of violence while on parole to be detained at a state correctional facility while awaiting a parole revocation hearing. The bill requires the department of corrections to reimburse a county or city and county for one-half the cost of transporting the parolee from the county or city and county to a state correctional facility. Under existing law, a community parole officer who is informed by a law enforcement agency that a parolee has been arrested for a criminal offense is required to request that a parole revocation proceeding be deferred pending a disposition of the criminal charge. The bill repeals this requirement and instead permits the community parole officer to request that the parole revocation proceeding be deferred. (Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced.)