Mandatory savings accounts for inmates.

WORKING DRAFT
2009
STATE OF
WYOMING
09LSO-0610

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0261

Mandatory savings accounts for inmates.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Bagby and Gingery and Senator(s) Perkins

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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205(a) by creating a new paragraph (i) and by renumbering (i) as (iii) and (iii) as (v) and (v) as (vi) is amended to read:

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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 correctional facility's trust and agency account, until the prisoner's account has a balance of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00). Once the prisoner's personal savings account balance reaches

one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), the
income otherwise distributed to the prisoner's savings account under this paragraph
shall be distributed to the prisoner as provided by paragraphs (ii) through (vi) of this subsection. Funds in the prisoner's
personal
savings account shall be paid to the prisoner upon parole or final discharge;

(i)
(iii)

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

(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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119 and victims compensation obligations under W.S. 1
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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, 2009.

(END)

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