State penal facilities review.

ORIGINAL
Senate
ENGROSSED
File No
.
SF0091

ENROLLED ACT NO. 54,

SENATE

SIXTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WYOMING
2016 Budget Session

AN ACT relating to state institutions; creating a task force to review potential penitentiary construction needs; providing for membership, requirements for task force study and report; providing for staffing and for assistance by state agencies; providing appropriations; and providing for an effective date.

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

Section 1.

(a)

There is created
the task force on state penal facilities
to
study issues
relating to building defects at the Wyoming state penitentiary at Rawlins, Wyoming
and associated inmate housing issues
. The
task force
shall consist of:

(
i
)

Five (5) members of the Wyoming senate to be appointed by the president of the senate
. At least one (1) member shall be from the minority party
;

(
ii
)

Five (5) members of the Wyoming house of representatives to be appointed by the speaker of the house
. At least one (1) member shall be from the minority party
;

(
iii
)

Three (3) members appointed by the governor not later than March 31, 2016. Two (2) of the members shall be members of the public who reside in communities with penitentiary institutions and one (1) shall be an engineer with knowledge of construction.

(b
)

The cochairmen of the
task force
shall be appointed by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house, respectively.

(c
)

The legislative service office shall staff the
task force
.

State agencies shall provide information and assistance to the
task force

as requested.

(
d
)

The
task force
shall study a
nd make recommendations for solutions
related to
building deficiencies
at the Wyoming state penitentiary in Rawlins
and associated
inmate housing issues.
The
task force
shall review the feasibility of
repair
ing or adding to the
current penitentiary, construction of a
new
penitentiary in Rawlins
,

and
relocation of
all or a portion
of

the
penitentiary

population
to
an

existing or new facility in
an
other
location in the state. The
task force
shall consider
existing and future projected inmate populations, capacity of communities and the department of correct
ions to adequately staff
facilit
ies
, cost
s
of repair and new construction, expected life cycles, timeframes
, alternatives to incarceration
and other items as the committee determines prudent to adequately
address the issues under study.

(e
)

The
task force

shall report its findings to the joint appropriations committee and the joint judiciary interim committee not later than
October
1, 2016. The joint appropriations committee and joint judiciary interim committee
may introduce legislation in the 2017 general session as
each

determine
s
appropriate to address issues
studied pursuant to
this act
.

(f
)

The
task force
shall
terminate
December 31, 201
6
.
Members of the task force who are not state employees, town
officers or legislators shall not receive a salary but shall receive reimbursement for mileage and per diem expenses at a rate provided for legislators under W.S. 28
‑
5
‑
101.

Section 2
.

(a)

T
here is appropriated from the
penitentiary permanent land
fund to the legislative service office

seventy

thousand dollars ($
7
0
,00
0
.00) for
purposes of this act.

(b)

There is appropriated from the penitentiary permanent land fund to the governor's office two thousand one hundred eighty dollars ($2,180.00) for payment of authorized per diem and mileage for task force members who are not state employees, town officers or legislators.

Section
3
.

This act is effective immediately upon completion of all acts necessary for a bill to become law as provided by Article 4, Section 8 of the Wyoming
Constitution.

(END)

Speaker of the House

President of the Senate

Governor

TIME APPROVED: _________

DATE APPROVED: _________

I hereby certify that this act originated in the
Senate
.

Chief Clerk

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