Whereas, both the community resolution teams for juvenile offenders and community reparation boards for adult offenders as restorative justice sentencing alternatives will be repealed on May 1, 1999; and

Whereas, unless this Act is made an emergency, the law that created the sentencing alternatives will be repealed before the Act takes effect; and

Whereas, in the judgment of the Legislature, these facts create an emergency within the meaning of the Constitution of Maine and require the following legislation as immediately necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety; now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 15 MRSA §3301, sub-§5-A, ķE, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 421, Pt. A, §3, is repealed.

Sec. 2. 17-A MRSA §1204-A, sub-§6, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 421, Pt. B, §2, is repealed.

Emergency clause. In view of the emergency cited in the preamble, this Act takes effect when approved.

SUMMARY

State laws establishing community resolution teams for juvenile offenders and community reparation boards for adult offenders as restorative justice sentencing alternatives are repealed on May 1, 1999. This bill would continue these sentencing alternatives.