CODE OF VIRGINIA

POSTRELEASE SUPERVISION OF FELONS SENTENCED FOR OFFENSES COMMITTED ON AND AFTER
JANUARY 1, 1995, AND ON AND AFTER JULY 1, 2000 (§ 19.2-295.2)

A. At the time the court imposes sentence upon a conviction for any felony
offense committed (i) on or after January 1, 1995, the court may, and (ii) on or
after July 1, 2000, shall, in addition to any other punishment imposed if such
other punishment includes an active term of incarceration in a state or local
correctional facility, except in cases in which the court orders a suspended
term of confinement of at least six months, impose a term of postrelease
supervision of not less than six months nor more than three years, as the court
may determine. Such additional term shall be suspended and the defendant placed
under postrelease supervision upon release from the active term of
incarceration. The period of supervision shall be established by the court;
however, such period shall not be less than six months nor more than three
years. Periods of postrelease supervision imposed pursuant to this section upon
more than one felony conviction may be ordered to run concurrently. Periods of
postrelease supervision imposed pursuant to this section may be ordered to run
concurrently with any period of probation the defendant may also be subject to
serve.

B. The period of postrelease supervision shall be under the supervision and
review of the Virginia Parole Board. The Board shall review each felon prior to
release and establish conditions of postrelease supervision. Failure to
successfully abide by such terms and conditions shall be grounds to terminate
the period of postrelease supervision and recommit the defendant to the
Department of Corrections or to the local correctional facility from which he
was previously released. Procedures for any such termination and recommitment
shall be conducted in the same manner as procedures for the revocation of
parole.

C. Postrelease supervision programs shall be operated through the probation and
parole districts established pursuant to § 53.1-141.

D. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the court from
exercising any authority otherwise granted by law.

HISTORY: 1994, 2nd Sp. Sess., cc. 1, 2; 1995, cc. 502, 574; 2000, c. 767.