FINAL BILL REPORT

SSB 6473

                              C 22 L 90

BYSenate Committee on Law & Justice (originally sponsored by Senators Thorsness, Wojahn, McCaslin, Gaspard, Rasmussen and Lee; by request of Department of Corrections)

Changing conditions applying to the sale of products of correctional industries.

Senate Committee on Law & Justice

House Committe on Health Care

SYNOPSIS AS ENACTED

BACKGROUND:

Under current law, the products of state-run class II industries may only be sold to public agencies and nonprofit organizations.

It is suggested the existing statute be amended to allow the sale of class II industry products to private contractors when the end user is a public agency or nonprofit organization.

SUMMARY:

The products and services of class II correctional industries may be sold to private contractors when the goods purchased will ultimately be used by a public agency or a nonprofit corporation.  The products and services must be reviewed by the Correctional Industries Board of Directors before offering such products and services for sale to private contractors.  The board of directors is also required to conduct a yearly marketing review of the products and services offered by correctional industries.  The review must include an analysis of the potential impact of the proposed products and services on the Washington State business community.

The Department of Corrections is authorized to donate clothing manufactured by a class II industry to any nonprofit organization that provides clothing free of charge to low-income persons.

In conducting its yearly marketing review of the products and services offered by correctional industries, the Correctional Industries Board of Directors is required to analyze the potential impact of the proposed products and services on the Washington state business community.

The Department of Corrections is required to study the expansion of prison industry products to the private sector and report to the Senate Law and Justice Committee and to the House of Representatives Health Care Committee by January 1, 1991.

VOTES ON FINAL PASSAGE:

     Senate   45    0

     House 97  0 (House amended)

     Senate   48    0 (Senate concurred)

EFFECTIVE:June 7, 1990