Local correctional facilities; fees. (SB581)

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Progress

✓	Introduced
☐	Passed Committee
☐	Passed House
☐	Passed Senate
☐	Signed by Governor
☐	Became Law

Description

Local correctional facilities; fees. Eliminates certain fees charged to inmates within a local correctional facility, including a fee to defray the costs associated with an inmate's keep, travel and other expenses associated with an inmate's work release employment or participation in an educational or rehabilitative program, and telephone systems. The bill also caps certain fees charged to inmates within a local correctional facility, including that the cost of items within a correctional facility's store or commissary and that the fee associated with electronic visitation and messaging systems. The bill removes provisions that if an inmate is unable to pay in full certain fees, the inmate must enter into a deferred or installment payment agreement with the local correctional facility, or that such facility may enter into a contract for collection of such fees with a private entity, a local governing body, or the county or city treasurer. The bill also provides that, upon discharge from a local correctional facility, an inmate shall receive, in the form of a check, electronic transfer, or a debit or other account card, the balance of all accounts maintained by the facility for an inmate's use. Read the Bill »

Status

01/12/2022: Awaiting a Vote in the Rehabilitation and Social Services Committee

History

Date	Action
01/12/2022	Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/12/22 22101620D
01/12/2022	Referred to Committee on Rehabilitation and Social Services