HB549:

Robbery; earned sentence credits.

Bill Summary:

Department of Corrections; earned sentence credits;
robbery. Specifies that any person serving a sentence on a Class
2 felony for committing robbery and causing serious bodily injury
to or the death of any other person is subject to a maximum 4.5 earned
sentence credits for each 30 days served. Consequently, a person
serving a sentence on a robbery that is a Class 3, Class 5, or Class
6 felony is not subject to the maximum 4.5 earned sentence credits
and may be eligible for the four-level classification system for
the awarding and calculation of earned sentence credits to become
effective on July 1, 2022. The bill requires the calculation of earned
sentence credits to apply retroactively to the entire sentence of
any inmate who is confined in a state correctional facility and participating
in the earned sentence credit system on July 1, 2022, and was (i)
convicted of robbery, as such crime was in effect prior to July 1,
2021, provided that such person, during the commission of such robbery,
did not cause serious bodily injury to or the death of another person
or (ii) convicted of robbery punishable as a Class 3, Class 5, or
Class 6 felony on or after July 1, 2021.