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Committee approves correctional facility capacity account to fund future prison needs
Summary
Lawmakers directed creation of a restricted account to accumulate funds tied to the fiscal impacts of bills that increase correctional populations; the account can be used only for constructing or expanding state correctional facilities.
The Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to favorably recommend draft legislation that creates a restricted account to fund future state correctional facility capacity needs.
Chair Lisenby and other legislators described the measure as a forward‑looking funding mechanism. The draft would deposit into the restricted account portions of appropriations tied to the capital facility impacts of enacted policy changes that increase…
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