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.