Montana State Legislature

Meeting Materials

The LJIC has completed its work for the 2019-2020 interim. Information for its next meeting, likely in the late spring of 2021, will be posted here when available. In the meantime, materials for the September 14 meeting are available below. To receive emailed updates about future meetings, please sign up here.

September 14, 2020 -- 8 a.m.

Room 152, State Capitol and Zoom

• Tentative Agenda
• Public Participation Instructions
• Listen/Watch

Meeting Materials

Research Update

• Interim Survey Results, Part 2
• PowerTools for Legislators
• 2021 Session Planning Survey Results

Department of Corrections Update

• Presentation slides -- DOC
• Press release, September 1, 2020 -- DOC

Agency Bill Draft Requests

• Memo: Agency Bill Draft Request Procedures -- Legislative Services Division and OBPP
• Department of Justice agency bill requests
• Judicial Branch bill requests

Criminal Justice Oversight Council and Justice Reinvestment Update

• Pretrial program update (PSA) -- Court Administrator

HB 640 Report

• Report: Aggregated data on childhood sexual abuse prosecution -- Attorney General's Office

Administrative Rule Review

• Memo: Board of Pardons and Parole administrative rules -- LSD staff

Background Materials for Probation and Parole Panel Discussion

• Justice Reinvestment Final Report for the Commission on Sentencing -- Council of State Governments Justice Center
• Webpage for Probation and Parole Division, Department of Corrections (DOC)
• How Montana's Probation and Parole System Works -- DOC
• 2017 Report about the Probation and Parole Division -- DOC
• Montana Interventions and Incentives Grid (MIIG) -- DOC
• PPD 6.1.203 - Case Management for Adult Offenders -- DOC
• PPD 6.3.101 - MT Incentives and Interventions Grid Procedure -- DOC
• PPD 6.3.415 - Enhanced Transitional Supervision Services -- DOC
• PPD 6.4.205 - Report of Violation of Probation or Parole -- DOC
• PPD 5.1.202 - Financial Resources for Offenders -- DOC
• Set Up to Fail: Montana's Probation and Parole System -- ACLU Montana
• Revoked: How Probation and Parole Feed Mass Incarceration in the United States -- ACLU

Interim Study Bill Draft Review

• Bill Draft Table
• HJ 31 Study Bill Drafts
  • HJ31-1 - Revise staffing and structure of Board of Crime Control
  • HJ31-2 - Revise duties of Board of Crime Control
  • HJ31-3 - Revise membership of the Board of Crime Control
• HJ 36 Study Bill Draft
  • HJ36-1 - Establish compensation program for wrongfully convicted individuals
  • Public comments for HJ 36
• SJ19 Study Bill Drafts
  • SJ19-1C - Revise laws related to sexual offender evaluations and treatment
    • Proposed amendment to SJ19-1C
  • SJ19-2 - Eliminate violent offender registry
  • SJ19-3 - Revise sex offender registry to make it private
  • SJ19-5 - Prohibit employers from asking about conviction history on applications
  • SJ19-6 - Provide for automatic removal from the violent offender registry after 10 years
  • SJ19-7 - Prohibit a condition of probation or parole that requires an offender to inform a landlord or employer of a criminal conviction
  • Public comments for SJ 19

Additional Materials

• Public comment guidelines
• General public comments received
• Required Reports
  • Compliance inspections of private correctional facilities -- Department of Corrections
  • September POST Council update -- Department of Justice
  • Statewide Public Safety Communications System -- Department of Justice
• Follow-up from sheriffs on detention center data