SB6 Alabama 2021 1st Special Session

Updated Sep 28, 2021

Senate Bill

Expired

Current Status

First Special Session 2021

Session

1

Sponsor

Summary

Primary Sponsor: William “Bill” M. Beasley Senator
Democrat
Session: First Special Session 2021
Title: Corrections Institution Finance Authority, prisons, issuance of bonds to finance additional prisons and renovation and improvement of existing prisons, new Elmore Co., Escambia Co., and Tutwiler facility, Captial Improvement and Maintenance Fund, Secs. 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 am'd.
Description: Under existing law, the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority is authorized to issue bonds for prison construction purposes.
This bill would allow the authority to issue additional bonds in an amount not to exceed $785 million, as necessary, to implement a prison modernization plan in a phased approach that would construct new prison facilities for Department of Corrections through the construction of a new specialized men's prison facility on state-owned land in Elmore County that would provide enhanced medical, mental, and other health care services and other services as determined by the department; the construction of a new prison facility for male inmates on state-owned land in Escambia County; the construction of a new women's prison facility on state-owned land in Elmore County; and the renovation and improvement of existing state-owned prison facilities in Jefferson County, Limestone County, Barbour County, and Bullock County.
Subjects: Prisons and Prisoners

Read for the first time and referred to the Senate committee on Finance and Taxation General Fund