Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a)
A youth offender shall be scheduled for a youth offender parole hearing within
six months following the youth offender's YPED unless the youth offender is
entitled to an earlier parole hearing under another provision of law.
(b) Notwithstanding (a), the following shall
apply:
(1) A youth offender sentenced to a
determinate term shall not be scheduled for an initial youth offender parole
hearing if the youth offender will be released as a result of his or her
Earliest Possible Release Date within one year of his or her YPED.
(2) A youth offender sentenced to a term of
life with the possibility of parole who first became eligible for a youth
offender parole hearing on January 1, 2018, under Assembly Bill 1308 (Chapter
675 of the Statutes of 2017) and whose YPED is before January 1, 2018, shall be
scheduled for his or her initial youth offender parole hearing by January 1,
2020.
(3) A youth offender
sentenced to a determinate term who first became eligible for a youth offender
parole hearing on January 1, 2016, under Senate Bill 261 (Chapter 471 of the
Statutes of 2015) and whose YPED is before January 1, 2016, or who first became
eligible for a youth offender parole hearing on January 1, 2018, under Assembly
Bill 1308 (Chapter 675 of the Statutes of 2017) and whose YPED is before
January 1, 2018, shall be scheduled for his or her initial youth offender
parole hearing by December 31, 2021. A youth offender shall not be scheduled
for an initial youth offender parole hearing under this paragraph if he or she
is scheduled to be released pursuant to his or her Earliest Possible Release
Date on or before December 31, 2021.
(4) A youth offender sentenced to a term of
life without the possibility of parole who first became eligible for a youth
offender parole hearing on January 1, 2018, under Senate Bill 394 (Chapter 684
of the Statutes of 2017) and whose YPED is before July 1, 2020, shall be
scheduled for his or her initial youth offender parole hearing within six
months of his or her YPED or by July 1, 2020, whichever is later.
(c) Subsequent youth offender
parole hearings shall be scheduled for youth offenders in accordance with Penal
Code section
3041.5,
subdivision (b), paragraph (3), except as provided in (d).
(d) A youth offender sentenced to a
determinate term shall not be scheduled for a subsequent youth offender parole
hearing if, on the date of the hearing, he or she will be within one year of
being released pursuant to his or her Earliest Possible Release Date.
Note: Authority cited: Section
12838.4,
Government Code; and Sections
3051(e),
3052
and
5076.2,
Penal Code. Reference: Sections
3041.5,
3051
and
3051.1,
Penal Code.
