{"id":38707,"date":"2025-04-29T15:44:52","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38707"},"modified":"2025-04-29T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:44:52","slug":"good-time-clarification-bill-clears-first-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/update.legislature.ne.gov\/?p=38707","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Good time\u2019 clarification bill clears first round"},"content":{"rendered":"

A measure introduced to clarify the calculation of \u201cgood time\u201d for individuals serving city or county jail sentences advanced to select file April 29.<\/p>\n

\"Sen.
Sen. Carolyn Bosn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LB640, sponsored by the Judiciary Committee, would require using the aggregate of the remaining term of a person sentenced to or confined in a city or county jail \u2014 including the sum of all consecutive sentences the person receives, whether received at the same time or at any time during such sentence or confinement \u2014 in determining sentence or sanction reduction.<\/p>\n

Lincoln Sen. Carolyn Bosn, chairperson of the committee, said the bill was introduced in response to a 2024 Nebraska Supreme Court decision in Mullins v Box Butte County related to the calculation of sentence reduction for good behavior during confinement in jail.<\/p>\n

Currently, after 15 days of confinement, an incarcerated person is eligible to earn day-for-day good-time credit toward their sentence for following rules and not engaging in prohibited conduct.<\/p>\n

In the Mullins case, Bosn said, an individual was serving two consecutive sentences and the county was calculating good time based on a new 15-day waiting period at the start of each sentence. LB640 would simplify current law to clarify that good time instead should be calculated based upon the aggregate of a person\u2019s remaining term, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a discrepancy in how different courts were applying [good time],\u201d Bosn said, \u201cand it was a problem for the jails, it was a problem for law enforcement and defense attorneys \u2026 so the court said we need a fix; we need to have one rule that\u2019s applied uniformly across the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawmakers advanced LB640 to select file 41-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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