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Habitual Violent Offender Incarceration Act
Summary
This Act would require mandatory life prison sentence without release, except by executive clemency, for the third conviction
for a violent or serious felony including murder, manslaughter, sexual assault, armed robbery, aggravated assault, arson, child
abuse or molestation, kidnapping or any other felony offense involving the use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument or
the intentional or knowing infliction of serious physical injury.

Model Legislation
{Title, enacting clause, etc.}
Section 1. {Title.} This Act may be cited as the Habitual Violent Offender Incarceration Act.
Section 2. {Definitions.} As used in this Act:
(A) "Habitual violent offender" means a person who:
(1) is convicted in this state of any violent offense; and
(2) who, prior to the instant conviction, has twice previously been convicted, whether in this state or elsewhere, of committing
felony offenses which under the laws of this state would be considered violent offenses.
(B) "Violent offense" means a violent or serious felony, including:
(1) murder;
(2) manslaughter;
(3) sexual assault;
(4) armed robbery;
(5) aggravated assault;
(6) arson;
(7) child abuse or molestation;
(8) kidnapping; or
(9) any other felony offense involving the actual or threatened use of a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, or the
intentional or knowing infliction of serious physical injury upon a victim.

Section 3. {Mandatory sentence for habitual violent offenders of most violent offenses.}
(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, habitual violent offenders shall be sentenced to life imprisonment without
possibility of parole or any other form of release from actual confinement.

Section 4. {Severability clause.} If any part of this Act or its application to any person or circumstances is held to be
invalid for any reason, then the remaining parts or applications to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected
but shall remain in full force and effect.

Section 5. {Repealer clause.}

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Section 6. {Effective date.}
ALEC's Sourcebook of American State Legislation 1995

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“ALEC” has long been a
secretive collaboration
between Big Business and
“conservative” politicians.
Behind closed doors, they
ghostwrite “model” bills to
be introduced in state
capitols across the country.
This agenda--underwritten
by global corporations-includes major tax
loopholes for big industries
and the super rich,
proposals to offshore U.S.
jobs and gut minimum
wage, and efforts to
weaken public health,
safety, and environmental
protections. Although many
of these bills have become
law, until now, their origin
has been largely unknown.
With ALEC EXPOSED, the
Center for Media and
Democracy hopes more
Americans will study the
bills to understand the
depth and breadth of how
big corporations are
changing the legal rules
and undermining democracy
across the nation.

ALEC’s’Corporate Board
--in recent past or present

• AT&T Services, Inc.
• centerpoint360
• UPS
• Bayer Corporation
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Energy Future Holdings
• Johnson & Johnson
• Coca-Cola Company
• PhRMA
• Kraft Foods, Inc.
• Coca-Cola Co.
• Pfizer Inc.
• Reed Elsevier, Inc.
• DIAGEO
• Peabody Energy
• Intuit, Inc.
• Koch Industries, Inc.
• ExxonMobil
• Verizon
• Reynolds American Inc.
• Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
• Salt River Project
• Altria Client Services, Inc.
• American Bail Coalition
• State Farm Insurance
For more on these corporations,
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