H.R. 4018, an act 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
Cost Estimate
As passed by the House of Representatives on December 3, 2019
Shorten certain elderly federal prisoners’ sentences by applying credits earned for good conduct when determining whether those prisoners are eligible for early release into home confinement
Estimated budgetary effects would primarily stem from
Reducing federal prison spending because some prisoners would be released from prison earlier than would occur under current law
Increasing federal spending for health care, Social Security, and other federal benefits for such prisoners
Areas of significant uncertainty include
Projecting the number of elderly incarcerated prisoners and the number who would meet eligibility criteria for home confinement under the act
Projecting whether prisoners would be confined in residential reentry centers or at home, and the difference in costs between those options compared with confinement in federal prisons
Estimating the number of offenders released under the act who would receive federal benefits
