This bill requires the Director of the Department of Corrections to submit a report relating to the employment of offenders on or before March 1 of each year to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for transmittal to the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and the Assembly Standing Committee on Ways and Means during a regular or special session of the Legislature, or the Interim Finance Committee when the Legislature is not in session. The report must include, without limitation, the following information relating to the previous year: (1) the number of offenders who were eligible for employment; (2) the number of offenders who were employed; (3) the number of offenders who refused employment; (4) the pay of the offenders who were employed; (5) the educational attainments of the offenders who were employed; (6) the amount of the deductions from the accounts of offenders who were employed; and (7) of the offenders who were employed and who were subsequently released, the percentage of offenders who found employment following release with the industries in which they were employed.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 209.461, 472.040
BDR: 209.461, 472.040