Reference is to Printer's Date 4/29/14-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking all after the enacting words and inserting:
/ SECTION 1. Article 1, Chapter 13, Title 24 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 24-13-180.
(A) Any public, private, or nonprofit
entity whose primary purpose is in helping to rehabilitate and
reintroduce into the community paroled inmates and which as part
of its program provides or furnishes residential housing in the
community to these parolees on either an individual or communal
basis must comply with the following provisions of this section
in addition to all other requirements of law:
(1)
The entity at least thirty days before locating any
parolees in any type of residential facility including
manufactured homes must publish a notice in a newspaper of
general circulation in the community giving the address of where
the residential facility will be located. A separate notice is
required each time such a facility is to be opened.
(2)
A public hearing must be conducted by the entity at least
sixty days before the first residential facility opens in the
community where all residents of the community must be given an
opportunity to comment on the program and on the location of any
or all of the proposed facilities which have been determined by
the entity as of the date of the public hearing. A separate
public hearing is required each time a facility is to be opened
if more than ninety days has transpired since the last public
hearing.
(B) The Department of
Probation, Parole and Pardon Services and its staff members are
exempt from the provisions of this section. Family members or
other persons providing housing to a parolee, but not operating
an on-going program targeting the reintegration of parolees, are
exempt from the provisions of this section.
(C) This section only
applies to a county, incorporated municipality, or town where
there are no zoning requirements.
(D) The provisions of
this section must be complied with before a facility may be
opened after the effective date of this section."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.