Bill Title: Relates to prohibiting involuntary employment of prisoners; provides that no prisoner shall be compelled to provide labor against his or her will by actual force, threats of force, threats of punishment, threats of legal coercion or by any scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause the person to believe that, if such person did not provide such labor that such person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-14 - opinion referred to judiciary [A08661 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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Sponsors

Name	Type	Sponsorship	District	Financial	Encyclopedia	Biography
Assemblymember Harvey Epstein [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-074	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart
Assemblymember Jo Simon [D]	Primary	Sponsored Bills	HD-052	FollowTheMoney	Ballotpedia	VoteSmart

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