All Corrections and Correctional Facilities, State Legislation - Kentucky

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 441, relating to jails, to provide a per diem payment of $30 per day for a state prisoner in local jail and an additional medical care payment of $2 per day for each state prisoner in local jail; require the state to pay for the time a convicted felon spends in jail prior to conviction on a phased-in basis, with the state paying the full amount for incarceration after July 1, 2013; require all jails to comply with the minimum jail standards of the Department of Corrections and provide that if jail does not meet those standards, the county shall contract with a county with a compliant jail; require that all state payments to counties for the operation of jails have an automatic annual cost-of-living increase; amend KRS 441.206, relating to jail bed allotments, to set the jail bed allotment based on the 1983-1984 formula, adjusted for inflation since that year; amend KRS 431.215 relating to state payment for convicted felons following conviction to require [...]

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Create Kentucky State Use Commission; establish duties and membership of State Use Commission; amend KRS 45A.470 to define the Kentucky State Use Commission and qualified nonprofit agency or work center serving the blind or severely disabled; amend KRS 45A.470 to require the purchase of goods and services from Prison Industries and nonprofit agencies and work centers serving the blind or severely disabled and designate the Kentucky State Use Commission as agency providing purchasing information to governmental agencies; amend KRS 45A.080, 45A.085, 45A.095, and 45A.100 to require that state governmental purchases be made from Prison Industries and nonprofit agencies and work centers serving the blind or severely disabled; create a new section of KRS 141 to define terms; establish a nonrefundable community rehabilitation credit program; establish maximum amount of credit allowed per corporation per tax year; amend KRS 141.0205 to establish the order in which the credit is applied against [...]

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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 439 to establish the "Probation and Parole Trust Fund"; provide for payments out of the trust fund for 2008 salary increases for probation and parole employees, uniform allowances, and the purchase of vehicles; raise all probation and parole employees two (2) pay grades effective August 1, 2008 with a ten percent (10%) pay raise; amend KRS 439.315 to raise the minimum felony supervision fee from ten dollars ($10) to twenty-five dollars ($25); impose a ten dollar ($10) per month fee for drug testing; provide that one-half (1/2) of the felony supervision fee be paid into the trust fund and one-half (1/2) be paid into the general fund; provide that all of the drug testing fee be paid into the trust fund; amend KRS 439.570 to add the drug testing fee and a one hundred dollar ($100) transfer fee to be paid under the interstate compact as conditions of supervision, with payments made into the trust fund; amend KRS 532.050 to impose a one hundred dollar ($100) [...]

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