SF78

Purpose

The bill aims to expand who cannot receive the earned incentive release credit under Minnesota’s Rehabilitation and Reintegration Act. It adds more categories of offenders to the list of people ineligible for this credit.

Key provisions

• Changes the eligibility rules for the earned incentive release credit (EIRC) by amending Minnesota Statutes 2024 section 244.45.
• Ineligibility categories added or clarified:
  • Those serving life sentences.
  • Those given indeterminate sentences for crimes committed on or before April 30, 1980.
  • Those subject to good time under section 244.04 or similar laws.
  • Those serving sentences for:
  • Second-degree murder (section 609.19)
  • Third-degree murder (section 609.195)
  • First-degree manslaughter (section 609.20)
  • Second-degree manslaughter (section 609.205)

Effects on existing law

• The bill narrows eligibility for earning release credits by explicitly qualifying additional serious-offense offenders (murder and certain manslaughter offenses) as ineligible.
• It builds on the existing ineligibility framework for EIRC by adding specific homicide-related offenses to the list.

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Relevant Terms earned incentive release credit ineligible Minnesota Rehabilitation and Reintegration Act Minnesota Statutes 2024 section 244.45 life sentences indeterminate sentences good time section 244.04 second-degree murder (609.19) third-degree murder (609.195) first-degree manslaughter (609.20) second-degree manslaughter (609.205)