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OH HB407
Bill
Status
1/21/2014
Primary Sponsor
James Butler
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AI Summary
HB 407 Summary: Repayment, Retraining, and Reclamation Act
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Requires the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish a pilot work program within two years, capable of accommodating at least 50% of eligible offenders initially and 80% within four years, operating at off-grounds manufacturing facilities called repayment, retraining, and reclamation factories.
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Permits counties to establish local repayment, retraining, and reclamation factories for eligible offenders (those convicted of non-violent fourth/fifth degree felonies or misdemeanors) serving jail terms or community control sanctions, with state funding through community-based correctional facility appropriations.
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Authorizes the manufacture and sale of goods on the open market or assembly/repair of components under contract, with profits funding program expenses; establishes restrictions on manufacturing goods already produced in the U.S. (generally limiting to goods representing less than 0.5% of world production).
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Grants eligible nonviolent offenders one day of sentence credit for each day of productive participation in the program, subject to existing restrictions on sentence reduction.
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Modifies sentencing law to allow courts to impose additional sentences (up to one-half of stated prison/jail terms) that may be required if offenders are removed from the program for rule violations.
Legislative Description
To require the Department of Rehabilitation and Correction to establish a pilot work program for offenders, to establish and operate the program at repayment, retraining, and reclamation factories that are not in or on the grounds of a prison or jail and permit the Department to establish and operate the program in prisons, to permit counties to establish and operate local repayment, retraining, and reclamation factories for certain offenders, to provide for the manufacture of goods and the sale of the goods manufactured by the pilot work program or local pilot work program on the open market or the assembly, processing, manufacture, or repair of components for goods pursuant to contract, to grant a nonviolent participant one day of credit off the participant's prison term or jail term for each day the participant productively participates in the program at a repayment, retraining, and reclamation factory or a local repayment, retraining, and reclamation factory, and to name this act the "Repayment, Retraining, and Reclamation Act."
Pilot work programs for offenders
Last Action
To State and Local Government
1/21/2014