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                                                   SENATE BILL NO. 3207

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State of Washington                              49th Legislature                              1985 Regular Session

By Senators Granlund, Metcalf, Bottiger, Rasmussen, Johnson, Patterson, Owen, Bender and Bauer

Read first time 1/21/85 and referred to Committee on Human Services and Corrections.

AN ACT Relating to prison work programs; and adding a new chapter to Title 72 RCW.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

NEW SECTION. Sec. 1.     The legislature finds and declares that the establishment of prison work programs that allow prisoners to undertake food fish, shellfish, and game fish rearing projects and game bird and game animal improvement, restoration, and protection projects is needed to reduce idleness, promote the growth of prison industries, and provide prisoners with skills necessary for their successful reentry into society.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 2.     The departments of fisheries and game and the department of corrections shall establish at or near appropriate state institutions, as defined in RCW 72.65.010, prison work programs that use prisoners to undertake state food fish, shellfish, and game fish rearing projects and state game bird and game animal improvement, restoration, and protection projects and that meet the requirements of RCW 72.09.100.

          The departments of corrections, fisheries, and game shall use prisoners, where appropriate, to perform work in state projects, including but not limited to, the following types:

          (1) Food fish, shellfish, and game fish rearing projects, including but not limited to egg planting, egg boxes, juvenile planting, pen rearing, pond rearing, raceway rearing, and egg taking;

          (2) Game bird and game animal projects, including but not limited to habitat improvement and restoration, replanting and transplanting, nest box installation, pen rearing, game protection, and supplemental feeding;

          (3) Manufacturing of equipment for use in fish and game volunteer cooperative projects permitted by the department of fisheries or the department of game, or for use in prison work programs with fish and game; and

          (4) Maintenance, repair, restoration, and redevelopment of facilities operated by the departments of game and fisheries.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 3.     (1) The departments of fisheries and game, as appropriate, shall provide professional assistance from biologists, fish culturists, pathologists, engineers, habitat managers, and other departmental staff to assist the development and productivity of prison work programs under section 2 of this act, upon agreement with the department of corrections.

          (2) The departments of fisheries and game shall identify and describe potential projects that are compatible with the goals of the various departments involved and that are particularly suitable for prison work programs.

          (3) The departments of fisheries or game, or both, as appropriate, may make available surplus hatchery rearing space, net pens, egg boxes, portable rearing containers, incubators, and any other departmental facilities or property that are available for loan to the department of corrections to carry out prison work programs under section 2 of this act.

          (4) The departments of fisheries or game, or both, as appropriate, shall provide live fish eggs, bird eggs, juvenile fish, game animals, or other appropriate seed stock, juveniles, or brood stock of acceptable disease history and genetic composition for the prison work projects at no cost to the department of corrections, to the extent that such resources are available.  Fish food, bird food, or animal food may be provided by the departments of fisheries and game to the extent that funding is available.

          (5) The department of natural resources shall assist in the implementation of the program where project sites are located on public beaches or state owned aquatic lands.

NEW SECTION. Sec. 4.     Sections 1 through 3 of this act shall constitute a new chapter in Title 72 RCW.