HB545 Summary

• Authorizes the Alabama Corrections Institution Finance Authority to issue up to $100 million in bonds to purchase, renovate, and equip the Perry County facility, Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, and other existing state prison facilities, with all renovation contracts subject to competitive bidding.

• Establishes capital improvement cooperative districts allowing counties and municipalities to construct and operate jail facilities to house state minimum security inmates at a rate of $30 per day per inmate, adjusted annually for inflation.

• Expands the Joint Legislative Prison Committee from 8 to 12 members and requires the Department of Corrections to submit annual reports to the committee detailing total prison population, inmate counts per facility, operational costs, and medical/mental health conditions.

• Pledges portions of the one mill tax and spirituous/vinous liquor tax proceeds as second and third priority security for bond repayment, with provisions for legislative reimbursement to the Department of Human Resources if pledged revenues are used.

• Establishes medical parole procedures for geriatric, permanently incapacitated, and terminally ill inmates, requiring the Department of Corrections to annually identify inmates spending 30+ days in infirmaries for Board of Pardons and Paroles consideration.