HB 1233 Summary

• Modifies Department of Correction requirements to provide stationery, envelopes, and postage only to indigent offenders without cost, rather than all confined persons.

• Allows non-indigent offenders to purchase stationery, envelopes, and postage through the Department of Correction.

• Permits all offenders to use interoffice mail without charge to communicate with the Department of Correction and other state government agencies.

• Requires the Department of Correction to provide all offenders with the ability to prepare and send legal mail without charge.

• Effective date: July 1, 2010.