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Act Today! House Bill 4098 will mean ...

WHAT THE MEASURE DOES: Requires the Department of Corrections to include time spent in jail awaiting trial if the person is convicted not only of the offense for which the person was being held in jail, but also the time spent in jail if the person is convicted of a lesser or greater included offense or any crime that the sentencing judge designated as part of the same criminal episode.

ISSUES DISCUSSED:

· Removal of marijuana and marijuana products from the commercial drug offense list was inadvertently left out of House Bill 3194

· Due process requires that the probationer have an opportunity to object to changes in probation

EFFECT OF COMMITTEE AMENDMENT: Allows a judge to not give credit for time served for time spent in jail for a probation violation. Removes marijuana and marijuana products from the commercial drug offense list.

BACKGROUND: A person sentenced to prison may have spent time in jail awaiting trial. Under certain limited circumstances, the time spent in jail may be counted toward the time the person must spend in prison. For example, if a person spent six months in jail waiting for trial on a particular charge and was later convicted on that charge and sent to prison for two years on that charge, the six months in jail would reduce the prison sentence by six months.

See - olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2014R1/Downloads/MeasureAnalysisDocument/23397 - for more.   See also Fiscal and Impact statements - olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2014R1/Measures/Analysis/HB4098

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