There are two additional small items I wanted to cover.
I want to ask if the provisions in the bill affect in any way the current judicial screening that is applied to parole applications by lifers between 15 and 25 years. These are the judicial screening, essentially the judicial permission sections of the Criminal Code now that must be met when a lifer makes an early application under the current faint hope clause. There must be a permission or decision of a judge that allows that application to proceed before it proceeds. I'm wondering if this bill affects those provisions in any way.