An Act To Add Work Assignments to the Law Regarding Notification of a Defendant's Release or Escape
Maine Legislature, Session 129, LD 0205
Committee: Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Sponsors: STOVER, MOORE, DEVIN, EVANGELOS, GRIFFIN, HARNETT, HYMANSON, JAVNER, PLUECKER, TALBOT ROSS
Amends: 17-A MRSA §1175

Legislative Document
No. 205
H.P. 168
House of Representatives, January 22, 2019
An Act To Add Work Assignments to the Law Regarding 
Notification of a Defendant's Release or Escape
Reference to the Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety suggested and ordered 
printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative STOVER of Boothbay.
Cosponsored by Senator MOORE of Washington and
Representatives: DEVIN of Newcastle, EVANGELOS of Friendship, GRIFFIN of Levant, 
HARNETT of Gardiner, HYMANSON of York, JAVNER of Chester, PLUECKER of Warren, 
TALBOT ROSS of Portland.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  17-A MRSA §1175, first ¶, as amended by PL 2017, c. 386, §1, is further 
amended to read:
Upon complying with subsection 1, a victim of a crime of murder or of a Class A, 
Class B or Class C crime or of a Class D crime under chapters 9, 11 and 12 for which the 
defendant is committed to the Department of Corrections or to a county jail or is 
committed to the custody of the Commissioner of Health and Human Services either 
under Title 15, section 103 after having been found not criminally responsible by reason 
of insanity or under Title 15, section 101-D after having been found incompetent to stand 
trial must receive notice of the defendant's unconditional release and discharge from 
institutional confinement upon the expiration of the sentence or upon release from 
commitment under Title 15, section 101-D or upon discharge under Title 15, section 
104-A; must receive notice of any conditional release of the defendant from institutional 
confinement, including probation, supervised release for sex offenders, parole, furlough, 
work release, work assignment under Title 34-A, section 3033, funeral or deathbed visit, 
supervised community confinement, home release monitoring or similar program, 
administrative release or release under Title 15, section 104-A; and must receive notice of 
the defendant's escape from the Department of Corrections, the custody of the 
Commissioner of Health and Human Services or the county jail to which the defendant is 
committed.  For purposes of this section, "victim" also includes a person who has 
obtained under Title 19-A, section 4007 an active protection order or approved consent 
agreement against the defendant.
Sec. 2.  17-A MRSA §1175, sub-§3, ¶B, as amended by PL 2017, c. 128, §3, is 
further amended to read:
B.  The nature of the release authorized, whether it is a conditional release, including 
probation, supervised release for sex offenders, parole, furlough, work release, work 
assignment under Title 34-A, section 3033, funeral or deathbed visit, supervised 
community confinement, home release monitoring or a similar program, 
administrative release or release under Title 15, section 104-A, or an unconditional 
release and discharge upon release from commitment under Title 15, section 101-D 
or upon the expiration of a sentence or upon discharge under Title 15, section 104-A;
SUMMARY
This bill adds work assignments for a defendant to the circumstances for which 
notification to the victim of a crime is required for a victim who has requested to be 
notified.