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INMATE EXPENSES AMENDMENTS

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2020 GENERAL SESSION

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STATE OF UTAH

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Chief Sponsor: Kyle R. Andersen

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Senate Sponsor: Karen Mayne

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7     LONG TITLE
8     General Description:
9          This bill creates disclosure requirements related to inmate commissary accounts.
10     Highlighted Provisions:
11          This bill:
12          ▸     defines terms; and
13          ▸     requires correctional facilities to disclose potential policies or practices regarding
14     inmate commissary accounts.
15     Money Appropriated in this Bill:
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17     Other Special Clauses:
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19     Utah Code Sections Affected:
20     ENACTS:
21          17-22-33, Utah Code Annotated 1953
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23     Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
24          Section 1. Section 17-22-33 is enacted to read:
25          17-22-33. Commissary account disclosure requirements.
26          (1) As used in this section:
27          (a) "Commissary account" means an account from which an inmate may withdraw

28     money, deposited by the inmate or another individual, to purchase discretionary items for sale
29     by a correctional facility.
30          (b) "Commissary purchase" means a transaction initiated by an inmate by which the
31     inmate obtains an item or items offered for sale by the correctional facility in exchange for
32     money withdrawn from the inmate's commissary account.
33          (c) "Correctional facility" means the same as that term is defined in Section
34     77-16b-102.
35          (d) "Inmate" means an individual in the custody of a correctional facility for criminal
36     charges or a criminal conviction.
37          (2) A correctional facility that employs a policy or practice by which the correctional
38     facility withdraws money from an inmate's commissary account, for any purpose other than a
39     commissary purchase, must disclose that policy or practice to the inmate or any other
40     individual seeking to make a deposit of money into the inmate's commissary account before the
41     correctional facility may accept and deposit the money into the inmate's commissary account.