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Committee rejects Elliott bill to retroactively adjust drug sentences but votes to draft governor resolution and consider interim study
Summary
Senator Elliott’s proposal to allow people sentenced under older, harsher drug statutes to petition courts for sentence adjustments failed in committee, but members directed staff to draft a senate resolution urging the governor and parole board to expedite review of commutation/parole applications and agreed to consider an interim study of affected cases.
Senator Elliott presented Senate Bill 378, a measure aimed at providing sentencing equity for people who received long drug sentences under older law. He asked the committee to allow courts to set aside drug sentences where a person has served the time they would receive under current law and to let those individuals petition…
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