This bill modifies the eligibility criteria for an elderly offender to qualify for early release from prison and placement in home detention.
Specifically, it reduces the amount of a prison term an elderly offender must serve by the amount of good time credits earned by the offender.
To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve 
before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced 
  by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, and for 
                            other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ELDERLY FOR CERTAIN NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS.

    Section 231(g)(5)(A)(ii) of the Second Chance Act of 2007 (34 
U.S.C. 60541(g)(5)(A)(ii)) is amended by striking ``to which the 
offender was sentenced'' and inserting ``reduced by any credit toward 
the service of the prisoner's sentence awarded under section 3624(b) of 
title 18, United States Code''.
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To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, and for other purposes.
To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, and for other purposes.
Official Titles - House of Representatives
Official Title as Introduced
To provide that the amount of time that an elderly offender must serve before being eligible for placement in home detention is to be reduced by the amount of good time credits earned by the prisoner, and for other purposes.
Rep. Deutch, Theodore E.