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Committee passes optional financial-literacy classes for inmates, corrections can absorb cost
Summary
The committee favorably recommended SB 183, which directs the Department of Corrections to offer optional financial-literacy classes to inmates to aid reintegration; corrections indicated it can absorb program costs.
Senator Pitcher’s sponsor presentation for Senate Bill 183 (delivered by Representative Cofer) asked the committee to require the Department of Corrections to provide an optional financial-literacy class to inmates to support reentry.
The presenter described the program as a simple educational offering to teach budgeting and other basic financial skills to people in custody. Committee members noted overlap with other bills and programs; Representative Ballard said HB 224 covers related topics and that corrections could align fiscal planning across both measures.
No members of the public spoke against the proposal, and the Department of Corrections indicated it could absorb the cost. The committee voted to favorably recommend SB 183 to the floor.
