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Committee approves bill letting Department of Corrections use trust fund to purchase facilities
Summary
The Senate committee advanced House Bill 1158 to allow the Department of Corrections and Division of Community Corrections to use the prison construction trust fund to purchase facilities (rather than only construct or equip them); the bill passed the committee by voice vote after department testimony on process and fund balances.
Senator James Sturge presented House Bill 1158, which changes statutory language from "division of corrections" to "department of corrections" and authorizes the department and the division of community corrections to use the prison construction trust fund to purchase existing facilities. "That would then allow the part the division of corrections as well as division of community corrections to take advantage of this current statute and code," Sturge told the committee.
Christine Cryer, chief legal counsel…
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