SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
SENATE BILLS NOS. 818 & 564
90TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
3525S.02C
AN ACT
To repeal section 217.560, RSMo 1994, and to enact in lieu thereof two new sections relating to prisons.
Section A. Section 217.560, RSMo 1994, is repealed and two new sections enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as sections 217.560 and 221.232, to read as follows:
217.560. The vocational enterprises program shall be diversified both as to location and kind and shall have for its purposes:
(1) The training and employment of offenders in such job skills and tasks as will afford them the most favorable opportunities practicable for gainful employment upon discharge from the department;
(2) The manufacture or provision, so far as practicable, of such goods or services, except laundry or linen services, as are, or may be, needed and used by a department, agency, or institution of the state or any political subdivision of the state, any state employee, or any not for profit public or private agency;
(3) The servicing, maintenance, and repair, so far as practicable, of machinery and equipment used by any department, agency or institution of the state or any political subdivision thereof;
(4) The provision of laundry or linen services as are or may be needed and used by any political subdivision of the state, department, agency or institution of the state and any state employee;
(5) The provision of laundry or linen services as are or may be needed and used by any facility of a not-for-profit public or private agency for which facility was under contract for such services on August 28, 2000.
221.232. 1. No private person, corporation, partnership, business, association or other entity shall operate or manage any correctional facility or jail within this state. Neither the state nor any political subdivision shall contract with any private entity for the keeping of any person within a correctional facility or jail. As used in this section, the term "correctional facility or jail" means any secure building, camp, farm or other facility used to house persons in the custody of any law enforcement agency or the department of corrections.
2. This section shall not prohibit the state or any political subdivision from executing any contract for the keeping of persons in facilities managed or operated by private entities for specific programs authorized by law, or for programs used for the monitoring of persons on conditional release, probation or parole.
3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the division of youth services.