Bill > SB089

This bill appropriates funds to the Department of Corrections for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2024, with a total appropriation of $1,165,384,062. * **General Fund appropriations** total $1,071,083,096 and cover various operational costs within the Department of Corrections, including personal services, operating expenses, utilities, maintenance, housing and security, food services, medical services, inmate programs, and support services. * **Cash Fund appropriations** total $45,982,256 and are derived from sources such as sales revenues from Correctional Industries and the Canteen Operation, inmate medical fees, restitution, and other departmental revenue streams. * **Reappropriated Funds** total $3,247,135 and are reallocated from other appropriations. * **Federal Funds** are not explicitly detailed in the provided text but are listed as a category. * Specific appropriations include funds for the Executive Director's Office, Restorative Justice Program, Health, Life, and Dental benefits, Short-term Disability, Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance, Unfunded Liability Amortization Equalization Disbursement Payments, Salary Survey, Step Pay, PERA Direct Distribution, Overtime, Incentives and Bonuses, Shift Differential, Temporary Employees Related to Authorized Leave, Workers' Compensation, Operating Expenses, Legal Services, Payment to Risk Management and Property Funds, Leased Space, Annual Depreciation-Lease Equivalent Payments, Planning and Analysis Contracts, Payments to District Attorneys, Payments to Coroners, and Digital Trunk Radio Payments. * The bill also includes appropriations for the Private Prison Monitoring Unit, Payments to House State Prisoners (both local jails and in-state private prisons), Inmate Education and Benefit Programs, Inspector General Subprogram, Utilities, Maintenance, Housing and Security, Food Service, Medical Services (including pharmaceuticals, Hepatitis C treatment, external medical services, and transgender healthcare), Laundry, Superintendents, Youthful Offender System, Case Management, Mental Health, Inmate Pay, Legal Access, Business Operations, Personnel, Offender Services, Communications, Transportation, Training, Information Systems, Facility Services, Inmate Programs (Labor, Education, Recreation, Drug and Alcohol Treatment, Sex Offender Treatment, Volunteers), Community Services (Parole, Community Supervision, Community Re-entry), Parole Board, Correctional Industries, and Canteen Operation. * The bill specifies that a portion of the Salary Survey appropriation is for non-base building compensation for correctional officers and other specified staff for state fiscal year 2024-25 only. * It is the General Assembly's intent that a portion of the Incentives and Bonuses appropriation be used for hiring incentives for nurses and other specified professionals, with these funds remaining available until the close of the 2025-26 state fiscal year. * The Department of Corrections is authorized to transfer up to 1.0 percent of the General Fund appropriation for the external capacity subprogram between line items within that subprogram. * The Department of Corrections is authorized to transfer money from the Energy Conservation and Operating Expenses line item to the Core Utilities line item. * The Department of Corrections is authorized to transfer up to 5.0 percent of the total appropriation for purchase of pharmaceuticals, Hepatitis C treatment costs, and external medical services between those line items.