HB 2311 Text

H. B. 2311

(By Delegates Perry, Pino and Stemple)
[Introduced January 9, 2008; referred to the
Committee on Government Organization then Finance.]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §31-20-30, relating to allowing the Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to establish a work program for qualified inmates sentenced to a regional jail facility; and specifying minimum requirements for the program and the distribution of money earned in the program.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §31-20-30, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 20. WEST VIRGINIA REGIONAL JAIL AND CORRECTIONAL FACILITY AUTHORITY.

§31-20-30. Work program.
The Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority is authorized to propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code establishing a work program for qualified inmates sentenced to a regional jail facility with, at a minimum, provisions providing:
(1) Guidelines and qualifications to allow inmates sentenced to a regional jail facility to be gainfully employed with local businesses as part of a job program within each regional jail facility;
(2) Accounting procedures to ensure that the earnings from the employment are distributed, in cooperation with any court order addressing distribution of income or pursuant to the inmate's sentencing orders, and that provide for the payment of:
(A) Court ordered restitution or fees;
(B) Fifty percent of the cost of incarceration as based on the approved per diem charges to be placed in the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority General Operating Fund; and
© All remaining amounts to be placed in a savings account for the inmate to be given to the inmate at the conclusion of the inmate's sentence in the regional jail, minus any restitution that may be owed by the inmate for facility rule infractions.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow the Executive Director of the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to establish a work program for qualified inmates sentenced to a regional jail facility. It includes provisions specifying minimum requirements for the program and the distribution of money earned in the program.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.

This bill was recommended for introduction and passage during the 2006 Regular Session of the Legislature by the Legislative Oversight Committee on the Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority.

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