Bill Text: HI SB73 | 2015 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Corrections; Committed Persons; Sale of Crafts; Correctional Industries Program; Correctional Industries Revolving Fund
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-18 - Re-Referred to PSM/WAM. [SB73 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2015-SB73-Amended.html
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THE SENATE |
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TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2015 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO PUBLIC SAFETY.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. Chapter 353, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by adding a new section to be appropriately designated and to read as follows:
"§353- Committed persons; sale of products and crafts. (a) The department shall permit committed persons, at the director's discretion, to create products and crafts for sale, including photographs, paintings, drawings, sewn items, crocheted items, woodwork, and other items deemed appropriate for sale by the director.
(b) The products and crafts created by committed persons may be sold by the director through the correctional industries program established in section 354D-3.
(c) The proceeds from the sale of products and crafts pursuant to subsection (a) shall be deposited as follows:
(1) Twenty-five per cent shall be deposited into the correctional industries revolving fund; and
(2) Seventy-five per cent shall be deposited into the committed person's account established pursuant to section 353-20."
SECTION 2. Section 354D-10, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:
"(a) There is created the correctional industries revolving fund to be administered by the department. All moneys collected by the department from the sale or disposition of goods and services produced in accordance with this chapter, from the sale of products and crafts in accordance with section 353- , and any inmate deductions shall be deposited into the correctional industries revolving fund. The proceeds in the correctional industries revolving fund shall be used for: the purchase or lease of supplies, equipment, and machinery; the construction, leasing, or renovating of buildings used to carry out the purposes of this chapter; the salaries of personnel necessary to administer the enterprises established in accordance with this chapter; payment of inmates for work assignments; the reimbursement of incarceration costs of the inmates related to the inmates' participation in correctional industries; and other necessary expenses; provided that the correctional industries revolving fund shall not be maintained in excess of the amount necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter."
SECTION 3. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Report Title:
Corrections; Committed Persons; Sale of Crafts; Correctional Industries Program; Correctional Industries Revolving Fund
Description:
Allows committed persons to create approved products and crafts that may be sold through the correctional industries program. Requires that all moneys collected from the sale of products and crafts to be deposited into either the correctional industries revolving fund or the committed person's account. (SD1)
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