Kentucky House Bill 340 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 28 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-03-25 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Pending: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 197 relating to prisons, to permit the Department of Corrections to operate a Prison Industries Enhancement (PIE) program in which the labor of prisoners is leased to private entities to make products and provide services for private employers which shall be in compliance with federal law; create a commission to oversee the program; provide that the program is temporary and shall expire ten years after the first program begins reauthorized by the General Assembly.

AN ACT relating to inmate recidivism reduction.

Rep. Rocky Adkins [D]

Rep. Johnny Bell [D]

Rep. Jesse Crenshaw [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-03-25		recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2010-03-24		returned to Rules (H)
2010-03-24		taken from the Orders of the Day
2010-02-24		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 25, 2010
2010-02-18		2nd reading, to Rules
2010-02-17		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
2010-02-12		posted in committee
2010-02-01		to Judiciary (H)
2010-01-28		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB340.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/10RS/HB340/bill.doc