Mandatory savings accounts for inmates.

WORKING DRAFT
2007
STATE OF
WYOMING
07LSO-0600

SENATE FILE
NO.
SF0142

Mandatory savings accounts for inmates.

Sponsored by:
Senator(s) Sessions, Decaria and Ross and Representative(s) Landon

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to department of corrections inmates; requiring savings accounts for inmates in the custody of the department of corrections as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Wyoming
:

Section 1.
W.S. 7
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16
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205(a) by creating a new paragraph (i)
and
by renumbering (i) and (ii) as (ii) and (iii) and (iii) and (v) as (v) and (vi) are amended to read:

7
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16
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205.

Disposition of earnings; confidentiality of amount.

(a)

Payment for services performed by any prisoner under W.S. 7
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202 shall be deposited in the trust and agency account at the institution and shall be disbursed for the purposes provided in this subsection and in the order specified:

(i)

Unless the prisoner is serving a sentence of death or life without the possibility of parole or is subject to mandatory savings under W.S. 25
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107(b)(i), ten percent (10%) to the prisoner's personal savings account within the institution's trust and agency account until the prisoner's account has a balance of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). Once the prisoner's personal savings account reaches one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), the income otherwise distributed to the prisoner's savings account under this paragraph shall be distributed in accordance with paragraphs (ii), (iii)
, (v)
and (v
i
) of this paragraph. Funds in the prisoner's personal savings account upon parole or final discharge shall be paid in accordance with paragraph (vi) of this paragraph
;

(i)
(ii)

Personal necessities and assessments of fees for programs, services and assistance pursuant to subsection (e) of this section;

(ii)
(iii)

Support of dependent relations of the prisoner;

(iii)
(v)

Court ordered restitution, fines, sanctions and reimbursement for the services of public defender or court appointed counsel, the surcharge imposed under W.S. 1
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40
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119 and victims compensation obligations under W.S. 1
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40
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112(g);

(v)
(vi)

Remaining funds shall be paid the prisoner upon parole or final discharge.

Section 2.
This act is effective July 1, 2007.

(END)

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