HOUSE BILL NO. 1453 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE CATON.
3037H.01I JOSEPH ENGLER, Chief Clerk
AN ACT To amend chapter 217, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to the establishment of a contingency management program within the department of corrections.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapter 217, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto one new section, to be 2 known as section 217.1350, to read as follows: 217.1350. 1. For purposes of this section, the following terms mean: 2 (1) "Contingency management", an evidence-based recovery model used as part 3 of substance abuse treatment in which persons are rewarded for evidence of positive 4 behavior change; 5 (2) "Department", the department of corrections; 6 (3) "Program", the contingency management program established under this 7 section. 8 2. Subject to appropriation, there shall be established within the department of 9 corrections a "Contingency Management Program" to facilitate and encourage long- 10 term abstinence from substance abuse and provide cash incentives to eligible persons 11 who are on probation or parole after serving time in the department of corrections. 12 3. Participants in the program shall be eligible to receive cash incentive awards 13 based on meeting the following minimum requirements: 14 (1) Six months of abstinence post-incarceration from substance abuse; 15 (2) Participation in at least sixty-two recovery meetings that are approved by the 16 department of corrections;
EXPLANATION — Matter enclosed in bold-faced brackets [thus] in the above bill is not enacted and is intended to be omitted from the law. Matter in bold-face type in the above bill is proposed language. HB 1453 2
17 (3) Completion of at least two negative drug screenings; and 18 (4) Completion of a recovery workbook. 19 4. Upon successful completion of the requirements of subsection 3 of this section, 20 program participants shall be eligible to receive a two hundred fifty dollar cash 21 incentive award. The department shall award no more than twenty-eight two hundred 22 fifty dollar cash awards under this section. 23 5. The department of corrections may promulgate all necessary rules and 24 regulations for the administration of this section. Any rule or portion of a rule, as that 25 term is defined in section 536.010, that is created under the authority delegated in this 26 section shall become effective only if it complies with and is subject to all of the 27 provisions of chapter 536 and, if applicable, section 536.028. This section and chapter 28 536 are nonseverable and if any of the powers vested with the general assembly 29 pursuant to chapter 536 to review, to delay the effective date, or to disapprove and annul 30 a rule are subsequently held unconstitutional, then the grant of rulemaking authority 31 and any rule proposed or adopted after August 28, 2025, shall be invalid and void. 32 6. Under section 23.253 of the Missouri sunset act: 33 (1) The provisions of the new program authorized under this section shall 34 automatically sunset six years after the effective date of this section unless reauthorized 35 by an act of the general assembly; 36 (2) If such program is reauthorized, the program authorized under this section 37 shall automatically sunset twelve years after the effective date of the reauthorization of 38 this section; and 39 (3) This section shall terminate on September first of the calendar year 40 immediately following the calendar year in which the program authorized under this 41 section is sunset. ✔
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