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Introduced Version House Bill 2901 History

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H. B. 2901


(By Delegates Rodighiero, Ellis, Hrutkay,
Burdiss, Shook, Barker, Staggers,


Fleischauer and Eldridge)

[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.

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.
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