HB 605 — An Act amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, providing for earned compliance credit.

PRINTER'S NO.   613

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                         HOUSE BILL
                         No. 605
                                                 Session of
                                                   2025

     INTRODUCED BY CARROLL, HILL-EVANS, SANCHEZ, GIRAL, KHAN,
        KENYATTA, CEPEDA-FREYTIZ, HOHENSTEIN, KRAJEWSKI, WAXMAN AND
        MAYES, FEBRUARY 12, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 12, 2025


                                     AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania
 2      Consolidated Statutes, in Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
 3      Parole, providing for earned compliance credit.
 4      This act may be referred to as the Earned Compliance Credit
 5   Act.
 6      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 7   hereby enacts as follows:
 8      Section 1.    Chapter 61 of Title 61 of the Pennsylvania
 9   Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subchapter to read:
10                                SUBCHAPTER H
11                          EARNED COMPLIANCE CREDIT
12   Sec.
13   6191.   Definitions.
14   6192.   Earned compliance credits.
15   § 6191.   Definitions.
16      The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter
17   shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
18   context clearly indicates otherwise:
 1      "Agency."     The department or any regional, local or county
 2   governmental agency responsible for supervising individuals
 3   placed on probation by the courts or serving a period of parole
 4   or postrelease supervision from prison or jail, provided such
 5   agencies receive funding from the Commonwealth.
 6      "Case plan."     An individualized accountability and behavior
 7   change strategy for supervised individuals that:
 8             (1)   Targets and prioritizes the specific criminal risk
 9      factors of the offender.
10             (2)   Matches programs to the offender's individual
11      characteristics such as gender, culture, motivational state,
12      developmental stage and learning style.
13             (3)   Establishes a timetable for achieving specific
14      behavioral goals, including a schedule for payment of victim
15      restitution, child support and other financial obligations.
16             (4)   Specifies positive and negative actions that will be
17      taken in response to the supervised individual's behaviors.
18      "Compliance credit."     A period of 15 days for every month
19   that a supervised individual:
20             (1)   Fulfills the terms of the supervised individual's
21      case plan.
22             (2)   Has no new arrests.
23             (3)   Makes scheduled monthly payments for restitution,
24      fines and fees.
25      "Supervised individual."     An individual placed on probation
26   by the courts or serving a period of parole or postrelease
27   supervision from prison or jail.
28   § 6192.    Earned compliance credits.
29      (a)    Agency action.--The agency shall:
30             (1)   Award earned compliance credits to a supervised

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 1    individual who satisfies the requirements specified in the
 2    supervised individual's case plan.
 3        (2)   Place a supervised individual in a nonactive
 4    supervision status for the number of days earned as
 5    compliance credits.
 6        (3)   For supervised individuals in nonactive supervision,
 7    submit a petition to the court or releasing authority to
 8    request that the period of supervision be reduced by the
 9    number of days of compliance credits earned by the
10    individual, when the supervised individual has no outstanding
11    restitution, fines or fees and is compliant on the
12    individual's court-ordered payment plan.
13        (4)   Adopt rules and regulations, which shall be
14    published on all publicly accessible county Internet
15    websites, for the forfeiture of earned compliance credits for
16    supervised individuals who violate conditions of supervision.
17    The regulations shall provide that:
18              (i)    Forfeiture is part of the agency's system of
19        graduated sanctions.
20              (ii)    The extent of earned compliance credits
21        forfeited is related to the level of severity of the
22        violation.
23              (iii)    Forfeiture of earned compliance credits is
24        limited to credits already earned and may not
25        prospectively deny future earned compliance credits.
26              (iv)    A procedure is established for the restoration
27        of forfeited earned compliance credits based on the
28        supervised individual's compliance with supervision
29        conditions and progress in achieving the goals of the
30        supervised individual's case plan.

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1      (b)   Compliance.--An individual defaulting on the payment of
2   court costs, restitution or fines after imposition of a
3   sentence, who is determined by the court to lack financial means
4   to pay the costs, restitution or fines without causing undue
5   burden to the individual or the individual's family, may not be
6   prohibited from earning or being awarded earned compliance
7   credits so long as the individual is compliant with all other
8   requirements for eligibility under this subchapter.
9      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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