SB59 Alabama 2017 Session

This bill will be known as the Alabama Prison Transformation Initiative Act

This bill would provide for the construction of four modern, efficient prison facilities to reduce overcrowding, to improve safety conditions for corrections officers, to allow for additional inmate re-entry programs and to improve operational practices and procedures

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

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 construct women's and regional prison facilities using various types of construction agreements

This bill would allow the Authority to issue additional bonds with no specified maturity date later than 30 years for the purpose of financing women's and regional prison facilities, for the renovation of existing prison facilities, and for demolition of obsolete prison facilities

This bill would require the Department of Corrections to consolidate facilities for certain male inmates

This bill would also provide for disposing 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 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

To amend Sections 14-2-1, 14-2-6, 14-2-12, 14-2-13.1, 14-2-14, 14-2-16, 14-2-19, 14-2-21, 14-2-28, and 14-2-34, relating to the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority, to allow the Authority to issue up to $800 million in bonds or other forms of funding deemed optimal for the project with no specified maturity date later than 30 years for the purpose of financing the construction of women's and regional prison facilities, renovating existing prison facilities, and demolishing obsolete prison facilities; to allow the Authority to design, construct, finance, lease, and maintain, or any combination thereof, women's and regional prison facilities using various types of agreements; and to revise the membership of the Authority; to require the Department of Corrections to consolidate facilities for certain male inmates; to authorize the Authority to dispose of property not required for Department of Corrections purposes; to require reporting to the Joint Legislative Prison Committee; to further provide for actions to be taken upon payment of all bonds issued by the Authority; to amend Section 29-2-20, Code of Alabama 1975, as last amended by Act 2015-165, 2015 Regular Session, to revise the membership of the Joint Legislative Prison Committee; to amend Sections 28-3-201, 28-3-202, 28-3-24, and 40-8-3, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to allocation of a portion of the proceeds of the one mill ($.10 on each $100 of assessed value) tax and the tax on all spirituous or vinous liquors provided therein as a second and third priority security for the Authority's bonds; to amend Section 38-4-12, Code of Alabama 1975, relating to the priority of the use of the one mill tax; and to define certain terms.