Introduced
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To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential Department of Corrections budget in the 2021-2022 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This bill contains nominal appropriations only, but may be amended at a later date to include real ones.
Referred to the Committee on Appropriations
Reported without amendment
With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.
Amendment offered
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To add $300,000 for a certain program.
The amendment passed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the department to report the number of prisoners kept in cells for 20 hours or more per day in the previous fiscal year, by facility, including cell type, prisoner race, and number of days in that cell type.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Amendment offered
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To require the Corrections department to adopt a system that lets inmate telephone calls cost no more than calls placed from outside the prison. The cost of prisoner phone calls has been a complaint for many years.
The amendment failed by voice vote
Passed in the House 65 to 42 (details)
The House version of the Department of Corrections budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This would appropriate $2.077 billion in gross spending, of which $808 million is federal money.
Referred to the Committee of the Whole
Passed in the Senate 20 to 16 (details)
To send the bill back to the House "stripped" of all actual appropriations except $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.
Failed in the House 0 to 109 (details)
To concur with the Senate-passed version of the bill. The failed vote is a procedural device used for launching negotiations over the differences between the House and Senate budgets, and eventually for negotiating a final budget between a Republican-controlled legislature and a Democratic governor.
