An Act To Improve the Delivery of Community Corrections Services
Maine Legislature, Session 124, LD 1583
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: KNIGHT, SCHATZ, DAVIS
Amends: 15 MRSA §3314, 17-A MRSA §1203, 17-A MRSA §1231

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·124th MAl E LEGISLATURE 
Legislative Document 
No. 1583 
H.P.1121 
. House of Representatives, December 22,2009 
An Act To Improve the Delivery of Community Corrections 
Services 
Submitted by the Department of Corrections pursuant to Joint Rule 204. 
Received by the Clerk of the House on December 18,2009. Referred to the Committee on 
Criminal Justice and Public Safety pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed pursuant to 
Joint Rule 401. 
Presented by Represenlati ve HASKELL of Portland. 
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MILLICENT M. MacFARLAND 
Clerk 
Cosponsored by Representatives: KNIGHT of Livermore Fall~, SCHATZ of Blue Hill, 
Senator: DAVIS of Cumberland. 
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: 
Sec. 1. 15 MRSA §3314, sub-§l, ~, as amended by PL 2005, c. 507, §10, is 
further amended to read: 
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The court may require the juvenile to make restitution for any damage to the 
victim or other authorized claimant as compensation for economic loss upon 
reasonable conditions that the court determines appropriate. For the purposes of this 
paragraph, the definitions in Title 17-A, section 1322 and the provisions of Title 17-
A, sections 1324, 1326-A, 1326-B, 1326-E, 1328-A and 1329 apply, except that 
section 1329, subsection 3, paragraph A does not apply. 
Sec. 2. 17-A MRSA §1203, sub-§l-A,~, as amended by PL 2003, c. 711, Pt. 
B, § 17, is further amended to read: 
B. The court may revoke probation if, during the initial un suspended portion of the 
term of imprisonment or during service of a portion of a sentence for which the 
suspension of execution was vacated upon revocation, a person sentenced as a repeat 
sexual assault offender, pursuant to section 1252, subsection 4-B, refuses to actively 
participate in a sex offender treatment program in accordance with the expectations 
and judgment of the treatment providers,when requested to do so by the Department 
of Corrections. 
Sec. 3. 17-A MRS A §1203, sub-§l-A, ~-lis enacted to read: 
B-1. Regardless of when the period of probation commences, the court may revoke 
probation if, during the initial unsuspended portion of the term of imprisonment or 
during service of a portion of a sentence for which the suspension of execution was 
vacated upon revocation, a person with a condition of probation to refrain from 
contact with another person or to refrain from contact with another person unless 
approved by the probation officer has prohibited contact. 
Sec. 4. 17-A MRSA §1231, sub-§7, ~, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 344, §5, is 
amended to read: 
B. Criminal conduct committed during the term of imprisonment; eF 
Sec. 5. 17-A MRSA §1231, sub-§7, ';fe, as enacted by PL 2007. c. 344, §5, is 
amended to read: 
C. Refusal during the term of imprisonment to actively participate, when requested 
to do so by the Department of Corrections, in a sex offender treatment program in 
accordance with the expectations and judgment of the treatment providers ... ; or 
Sec. 6. 17-A MRSA §1231, sub-§7, GffD is enacted to read: 
D. Prohibited contact during the term of imprisonment with a person with whom the 
court has ordered as a condition of supervised release that there be no contact or with 
whom the court has ordered that there be no contact unless approved by the probation 
officer. 
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SUMMARY 
This bill provides that restitution orders for juvenile offenders be handled through the 
Department of Corrections just like the department handles orders for adult offenders. 
This bill also provides that all repeat sexual assault offenders who are incarcerated 
must participate in a sex offender treatment program when requested by the department 
or have their probation revoked. 
This bill also provides probation officers the ability to respond to violations of 
conditions of probation for probationers or of conditions of supervised release for sex 
offenders prohibiting contact with another person while the probationer or offender is 
incarcerated.