BILL · 2003–04 SESSION · LATEST VERSION E2SHB 3026
HB 3026: Correctional industries
Revising provisions relating to correctional industries.
Summary
Requires the Correctional Industries Board (Board) to conduct a threshold analysis, a business impact analysis, and a public hearing for any new or the expansion of an existing class I correctional industry work program to determine if the proposed program will compete with any Washington business.
Prohibits the Department of Corrections (DOC) from contracting or approving any agreement for a new class I work program, or the expansion of an existing class I work program, that competes with any Washington business.
Prohibits any inmate with a release date that is more than 10 years in the future from participating in a class I correctional industry.
Expands the Board's duties to include reviewing and setting policy for class III capital programs or community work crews and class IV work crews.
Requires institutions of higher education to purchase up to 1 percent of their products and services from the DOC class II industries.
Authorizes the DOC to expand its class I and class II inmate work programs by 1,500 inmates over the next six years.
From the Second Substitute House Bill Report (2SHB 3026), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗
Did not passDid not pass · passed House, stalled in Senate