SB191 SFAT TAKUBO #1 3-8

Smith  7883

Senator Takubo moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. Com. Sub. for Senate Bill 191—A Bill to amend and reenact §62-11C-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to community corrections generally; making participation in a community corrections program a possible condition of deferred adjudication; clarifying conditions of deferred adjudication; clarifying terms of pretrial diversion agreements; clarifying that no contest pleas may be a part of a pretrial diversion or deferred adjudication agreement; setting forth offenses which require a defendant’s actual appearance before a court in deferred adjudication matters; clarifying judicial options where a defendant does not successfully complete his or her program; and providing that inability to pay court costs or and restitution is not a basis for denying a person deferred adjudication.

Adopted

Rejected