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SF 1870 Senate Long Description

Modifying certain provisions providing for the sentencing of certain +predatory sex offenders; requiring inmates serving a mandatory life sentence +for certain criminal sexual conduct offenses to serve the minimum term of +imprisonment before receiving supervised or conditional release; expanding the +provision requiring a civil commitment determination before release and +providing for certain exceptions; requiring earlier appointment by the commissioner+ of corrections of end of confinement review committees for certain sex +offenders subject to indeterminate sentencing; creating indeterminate sentences+ and mandatory life sentences for certain criminal sexual conduct crimes; +defining sex offense and predatory crime; imposing minimum sentences for +criminal sexual conduct offenses; defining the crime of criminal sexually motivated +predatory conduct, requiring sentencing to imprisonment for life upon +conviction; requiring and providing for the commissioner to establish criteria +and procedures to use in release decisions for certain offenders +including the frequency of review and to develop recommendations for the membership+ and operation of the sex offender review board to make decisions relating+ to the release of sex offenders after serving a minimum term of +imprisonment; requiring the commissioner to provide the legislature by a certain +date with written criteria and procedures to govern the review and release of +sex offenders subject to indeterminate sentences; specifying certain +reference removal and related change instructions to the revisor of statutes; +repealing a certain provision providing for certain statutory maximum sentences +and for conditional release based on the accumulation of good time and +assignment to treatment and aftercare (ra)