CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF

Missouri House of Representatives
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CORRECTIONS, DEPARTMENT OF
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: Requires the implementation of a state suicide prevention plan by the Department of Health and Senior Services.

: Requires Department of Corrections to reimburse counties for the additional compensation to prosecuting attorneys.

: Requires autopsy record to be given to any member of General Assembly and posted on web site.

: Requires the Board of Probation and Parole to supervise persons found guilty of misdemeanor criminal nonsupport.

: Prohibits privately operated prisons.

: Creates the crime of offender sexual abuse.

: Prohibits nonviolent offenders from being housed in the same cell as violent offenders.

: Creates board of corrections ombudsman and office of corrections ombudsman.

: Allows records concerning sex offenders to be released in certain circumstances.

: Provides guidelines for operation of private prisons.

: Sets minimum education and experience requirements for persons running for sheriff and requires jailers to get training under police officer standards and training law.

: Prohibits use of tobacco products in all buildings and grounds of correctional centers by July 1, 2003.

: Requires that contracts for collect call service for correctional institutions be awarded to the lowest and best bidder and that allows renegotiation of any existing contracts to reduce costs.

: Revises criminal laws.

: Allows records concerning sex offenders to be released in certain circumstances.

: Specifies when an agency is to notify the Attorney General of a possible sexually violent predator and the content of that notice including that a psychiatrist or psychologist make the determination.

: Provides that no branch of government shall employ an inmate or other person with a criminal record in a position where such person would have access to records containing personal identifiers.

: Allows persons treated by emergency medical care providers, health care providers, and Good Samaritans to be tested for contagious and infectious diseases.

: Requires all state contracts for the purchase of goods and services to be subject to competitive bidding and awarded to the lowest qualified bidder.

: Removes laundry and linen services from services offered by the Vocational Enterprises Program.

: Modifies the information required for delivery of prisoners to correctional centers.

: Expands the medical testing performed on persons delivered to the Department of Corrections.

: Allows offenders in correctional centers to obtain alternative health care at their own expense.

: Removes Vocational Enterprises Program from favored status in purchasing by state agencies.

: Transfers Board of Probation and Parole and the Division of Probation and Parole to the Office of Probation and Parole within the judiciary and eliminates conditional release for certain sex crimes.

: Allows members of the Board of Probation and Parole to use of sick leave to purchase additional creditable service.

: Prohibits private prisons or jails.

: Revises sex crimes laws.

: Creates Project Exile, relating to firearm crimes.

: Creates a commission to study the death penalty and imposes a temporary moratorium on executions.

: Allows certification programs for corrections officers.

: Limits inmates from providing laundry services for any person or agency (other than providing services for correctional facilities).

: Provides guidelines for the department of corrections to pay overtime during fiscal year 2003 and each fiscal year thereafter and for a one-time salary increase Payment is subject to appropriations.

: Creates two new corrections officer positions within the department of corrections to become effective at the beginning of fiscal year 2006.

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