H. B. 2901
(By Delegates Rodighiero, Ellis, Hrutkay,
Burdiss, Shook, Barker, Staggers,
Fleischauer and Eldridge)
[Introduced February 7, 2007; 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.
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 guidelines and
qualifications to allow inmates sentenced to a regional jail
facility, who are not awaiting transfer to a state correctional
facility and who are known not to be a danger to the general
public, to work for county commissions or other qualified city or
county government agencies under a work release program. Inmates
participating in a work release program pursuant to this section
may be granted up to sixty days of good time and may be released
from incarceration up to sixty days immediately prior to the
scheduled completion of their respective sentence or period of
incarceration.
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.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.