FIRST REGULAR SESSION

[PERFECTED]

HOUSE BILL NO. 452

91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY

INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE GRATZ.

Read 1^st time January 18, 2001, and 1000 copies ordered printed.

Read 2^nd time January 22, 2001, and referred to the Committee on Correctional and State Institutions, February 8, 2001.

Reported from the Committee on Correctional and State Institutions, February 28, 2001, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.

Perfected by Consent March 12, 2001. Bill ordered Perfected and printed.

TED WEDEL, Chief Clerk

1246L.01P

AN ACT

To repeal section 217.560, RSMo 2000, relating to vocational enterprises, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.

Section A. Section 217.560, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 217.560, to read as follows:

217.560. The vocational enterprises program shall be diversified both as to location and kind and shall have for its purposes:

(1) The training and employment of offenders in such job skills and tasks as will afford them the most favorable opportunities practicable for gainful employment upon discharge from the department;

(2) The manufacture or provision, so far as practicable, of such goods or services as are, or may be, needed and used by a department, agency, or institution of the state or any political subdivision of the state, any state employee, any retired state employee, or any not-for-profit public or private agency;

(3) The servicing, maintenance, and repair, so far as practicable, of machinery and equipment used by any department, agency or institution of the state or any political subdivision thereof.

Missouri House of Representatives