Bill > HB1280

Introduced Session

State correctional facilities; participation of prisoners in employment and educational programs; reentry planning. Expands the program assignments in which the Director of the Department of Corrections may place a prisoner while such prisoner is confined in a state correctional facility. The bill requires the Director to place a prisoner in an appropriate program assignment within (i) 90 days of the arrival of a prisoner sentenced to a new term of confinement to a state correctional facility or (ii) 60 days of a prisoner already in custody being transferred to a new state correctional facility and provides that participation in such program assignments shall be for an average of 30 hours per week, calculated individually across the calendar year. Finally, the bill expands upon the requirements for a prisoner's reentry plan, including requiring an assessment, if necessary, of a prisoner's readiness to take a high school equivalency test and any modifications needed for the prisoner to take or improve upon such test, and making available peer and group educational programs developed and led by qualified prisoners.

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Joshua Cole (D)*,  Lashrecse Aird (D),  Jessica Anderson (D),  Stacey Carroll (D),  Nadarius Clark (D),  Nicole Cole (D),  Rae Cousins (D),  J.R. Henson (D),  Karen Keys-Gamarra (D),  Destiny LeVere Bolling (D),  Marcia Price (D),  Irene Shin (D),  Vivian Watts (D), 

Senate Rehabilitation and Social Services Hearing (08:00:00 2/27/2026 Senate Room A, Room 305, General Assembly Building) (on 02/27/2026)

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