HB545 Alabama 2017 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Allen Farley Representative

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2017

Title

Prisons, Alabama Prison Transformation Initiative Act, construction of new facilities provided for, Joint Legislative Prison Committee, reporting requirements increased, Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority, bonds authorized for prison facilities, construction agreements, renovating and demolishing existing prison facilities, proceeds on existing one mill tax, distribution further provided for, Secs. 14-2-1, 14-2-6, 14-2-12, 14-2-13.1, 14-2-16, 14-2-19, 14-2-21, 14-2-28, 28-3-201, 28-3-202, 28-3-204, 29-2-20, 38-4-12, 40-8-3 am'd.

Description

Under existing law, the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority is authorized to issue bonds for prison construction purposes. The authority is required to construct facilities using plans and specifications of architects or engineers, or both.

This bill would also allow the authority to issue bonds up to $100,000,000 to purchase, renovate, and equip the existing Perry County facility, the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women and existing regional or other prison facilities and would require the competitive bidding of all contracts for renovations.

This bill would require increased reporting to the Joint Legislative Prison Committee.

This bill would provide for the creation of capital improvement cooperative districts by counties and municipalities for the renovation, expansion, maintenance, and operation of county and municipal jail facilities to house state inmates.

This bill would require the Department of Corrections to contract with the capital improvement cooperative districts for the housing of minimum security state inmates for the rate of $30 per day per inmate.

This bill would also provide for disposal of property not required for use by the Department of Corrections and further provide for actions to be taken upon payment of all bonds issued by the authority.

This bill would provide for the pledge of a portion of the proceeds of the one mill tax levied by Section 40-8-3, Code of Alabama 1975, and to pledge a portion of the proceeds of the tax on all spirituous or vinous liquors levied by current law to secure the authority's bonds.

This bill would provide for the medical parole of certain inmates suffering from life-threatening illnesses when death is imminent and who meet certain criteria.

This bill would require the Department of Corrections to annually identify all inmates who have spent 30 or more days in an infirmary or under a physician's care and provide that information to the Board of Pardons and Paroles for consideration of medical paroles by the board under certain conditions.

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Subjects

Prisons and Prisoners