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2011 SESSION
Chairman: Linda T. Puller
Clerk: Maryann Horch, Nick Galvin
Staff: Sarah Stanton, Wenzel Cummings
Date of Meeting: January 28, 2011
Time and Place: 8:30 a.m., Senate Room B
Patron: Locke
Rehabilitative programming; earned sentence credits. Allows prisoners to earn 10 additional sentence credits for each 30 days of incarceration for participation in programs aimed at earning a GED, college credit, or a certification through an accredited vocational training program or other accredited continuing education program, or interventional rehabilitation programs including mental health and sex offender treatment.
Patron: McDougle
Department of Corrections; inmate savings accounts. Requires the Department of Corrections to establish for each inmate a personal savings account consisting of 10 percent of any funds received by an inmate from any source until the account has a balance of $1,000. Funds in an inmate%92s personal savings account shall be paid to the inmate upon parole or final discharge.
Patron: Miller, Y.B.
Juvenile work programs. Adds additional members to the committee that reviews agreements with a public or private entity for the operation of a work program for juveniles committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice. In addition, the bill requires the committee to develop and submit to the Department a plan for the establishment of a network of businesses willing to employ juveniles released from the Department's commitment.
Patron: Watkins
Powers of the State Board of Corrections. Repeals the Board's authority to (1) ensure the development of long-range programs and plans for corrections services provided at the state and local level; (2) review and comment on all applications for federal funds and all budget and appropriations requests for the Department of Corrections prior to submission to the Governor; and (3) monitor the activities of the Department and its effectiveness in implementing standards and goals of the Board. The bill also repeals the power of the Board to authorize the payment of medical expenses incurred by a prisoner after his release or discharge from the Department when such expenses are the result of an injury suffered by the prisoner while incarcerated and not caused by the misconduct of the prisoner.
Patron: Barker
Foster care plan; independent living. Eliminates independent living as a permanency goal option for foster care plans approved on or after July 1, 2011.
Patron: Hanger
Alcoholic Beverage Control; tax on wine and other alcoholic beverages; exceptions. Provides an exception from payment of tax on alcoholic beverages for all shipments of alcoholic beverages out of state. Current law provides the exception from payment of tax only for shipments to out-of-state wholesalers.
Patron: Hanger
Administration of assisted living facilities. Provides that in cases in which a licensed assisted living facility administrator dies, becomes ill, resigns, or is discharged, an assisted living facility may continue to operate for up to 150 days with an acting administrator who is qualified by education for an administrator-in-training program or who has completed an administrator-in-training program and is awaiting licensure. The bill allows for a single 30-day extension for facilities operating with an acting administrator who has applied for licensure, completed the administrator-in-training program, and is awaiting the results of the national examination.
Patron: Hanger
Alcoholic beverage control; regulations of the board. Provides that the Board shall require all off-premises retail licensees and all government stores to post a sign in a conspicuous location that bears a warning regarding the risks of consuming alcohol during pregnancy.
Patron: Hanger
Corrections; use of inmate labor. Authorizes the use of inmate labor at rest areas along the Interstate Highway System.
Patron: Marsden
State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families; powers and duties. Authorizes the State Executive Council for Comprehensive Services for At-Risk Youth and Families to deny funding to a locality if services are not provided in compliance with applicable state or federal law.
Patron: Howell
Jails; electronic visitation and messaging. Allows sheriffs who operate correctional facilities to charge a fee for the use of an electronic visitation system or electronic messaging system. The fee may not exceed the actual costs of establishing and operating the system and the proceeds are to be used only to offset those costs.
Patron: Vogel
Corrections facilities. Requires the Department of Corrections to offer to test an inmate, who does not have a record of a positive test result, for infection with human immunodeficiency virus within 60 days of his scheduled discharge. Prior to administering the test, the Department shall inform the inmate of the purpose of the test. An inmate may decline being tested.
Patron: McWaters
Jails; localities’ responsibility to pay jail expenses. Clarifies that localities are responsible for the payment of expenses of operating and maintaining local correctional facilities, including board, clothing, and medical attention for prisoners.
Patron: Ruff
Alcoholic Beverage Control; referendum on mixed beverage sales in counties. Provides for the residents of towns with a population of more than 1,000 to vote on the referendum for the sale of mixed beverages within the county in which those towns are located. Under current law, such towns vote only in a referendum in the town.
Patron: McEachin
Rate at which sentence credits may be earned. Allows a maximum of seven and one-half sentence credits, as opposed to the current four and one-half, for each 30 days served.
Patron: Quayle
Local correctional facilities; collection of fees and costs. Allows sheriffs and jail superintendents to enter into installment payment agreements with prisoners for the payment, after release, of costs and fees owed for the prisoner’s keep. The bill also allows the enforcement of such payment agreements through driver’s license suspension. The bill allows the sheriffs and jail superintendents to use private attorneys and collection agencies to collect fees and costs due them.
Patron: Miller, J.C.
Prison printing shops. Provides that state institutions of higher education may, but are not required to, purchase the products of print shops in state correctional facilities.
Patron: Hanger
Alcoholic beverage control; prorated license fees for act of God. Provides for proration of ABC license taxes for licensees whose place of business is destroyed by an act of God, including but not limited to fire, earthquake, hurricane, or storm. The bill also requires the ABC Board to prescribe the schedule of proration.