E Relating to crime prevention, adopting the new "Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision"ARTICLE I PURPOSEProviding for the adoption of a new interstate compact to authorize and encourage cooperative efforts and mutual assistance in tracking the location of criminal offenders, to provide a framework for the promotion of public safety and to protect the rights of victimsARTICLE II DEFINITIONS Defining certain terms used in the compact ARTICLE III THE COMPACT COMMISSIONCreating the interstate commission for adult offender supervision as a joint agency of the compacting states; specifying certain responsibilities, powers and duties; commissioners to be selected and appointed by members of a state council for interstate adult offender supervision to be established in each state, providing for the inclusion of nonvoting members in addition to commissioners; requiring meetings to be open to the public; requiring the commission to establish an executive committee with the power to act on behalf of the commission under certain conditions ARTICLE IV THE STATE COUNCILRequiring each member state to create a state council for interstate adult offender supervision to be responsible for the appointment of commission members, specifying certain membership representation requirements and duties ARTICLE V POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSIONGranting the interstate commission certain powers including the oversight, supervision and coordination of the interstate movement of offenders, to enforce compliance with the compact, to establish and appoint committees and hire staff, to provide for dispute resolution among compacting states and to establish uniform standards for the reporting, collecting and exchanging of data ARTICLE VI ORGANIZATION OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSIONRequiring and providing for the interstate commission to adopt bylaws, to elect certain officers and to appoint certain staff, requiring appointment of an executive director; specifying certain records maintenance requirements; granting commission members, officers and employees immunity from suit and liability ARTICLE VII ACTIVITIES OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSIONSpecifying certain duties of the interstate commission; providing for the inspection and copying of records; authorizing closed meetings under certain conditions; requiring and providing for the collection of certain data on the interstate movement of offenders ARTICLE VIII RULEMAKING FUNCTIONS OF THE INTERSTATE COMMISSIONRequiring and providing for the adoption of rules for administration of the compact ARTICLE IX OVERSIGHT, ENFORCEMENT AND DISPUTE RESOLUTION BY THE INTERSTATE COMMISSIONRequiring the interstate commission to oversee the interstate movement of adult offenders in the compacting states and to monitor activities administered in noncompacting states significantly affecting compacting states; imposing certain enforcement duties on the commission; providing for the resolution of disputes arising among compacting and noncompacting states by the commission ARTICLE X FINANCERequiring the interstate commission to pay for certain expenses, requiring collection of an annual assessment from each compacting state to cover the cost of the internal operations and activities of the commission, limit; specifying certain accounting and audit requirements; establishing the interstate compact for adult offender supervision fund in the department of corrections ARTICLE XI COMPACTING STATES, EFFECTIVE DATE AND AMENDMENTProviding for the effectiveness of and amendments to the compact ARTICLE XII WITHDRAWAL, DEFAULT, TERMINATION AND JUDICIAL ENFORCEMENTProviding for withdrawal from the compact; specifying grounds for default and authorizing the commission to impose certain penalties; authorizing certain legal actions; providing for dissolution of the compact ARTICLE XIII - SEVERABILITY AND CONSTRUCTIONProviding for severability and liberal construction of the compactARTICLE XIV BINDING EFFECT OF COMPACT AND OTHER LAWSProviding for the conflict of laws and for the binding effect of the compact; creating a permanent advisory council on interstate adult offender supervision and specifying membership requirements and duties; requiring the commissioner of corrections to serve as the compact administrator, to serve on the advisory council and to assess and collect certain fines, fees and costs; providing for the application of the interstate compact; imposing penalties for violation of the provisions of the compact; appropriating money to the commissioner for compact administration purposes; repealing the existing interstate compact for the supervision of parolees and probationers (ra, ja)