February 20, 2004
ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL No. 1135
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DIGEST OF HB 1135
(Updated February 17, 2004 2:33 pm - DI 106)
Citations Affected: IC 4-24.
Synopsis: Institutional funds. Provides that recreation funds
established in state psychiatric, benevolent, penal, and correctional
institutions may also be used for the acquisition of educational
materials and for purposes that assist in rehabilitation.
Effective: July 1, 2004.
January 13, 2004, read first time and referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
January 29, 2004, reported _ Do Pass.
February 2, 2004, read second time, ordered engrossed.
February 3, 2004, engrossed.
February 5, 2004, read third time, passed. Yeas 93, nays 0.
SENATE ACTION
February 9, 2004, read first time and referred to Committee on Criminal, Civil and Public
Policy.
February 19, 2004, reported favorably _ Do Pass.
February 20, 2004
Second Regular Session 113th General Assembly (2004)
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ENGROSSED
HOUSE BILL No. 1135
A BILL FOR AN ACT to amend the Indiana Code concerning state
offices and administration.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
SOURCE: IC 4-24-6-6; (04)EH1135.1.1. -->
SECTION 1. IC 4-24-6-6 IS AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS
[EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 2004]: Sec. 6.
(a) There is established in each
psychiatric, benevolent, penal, and correctional institution a fund to be
known
either as the:
(1) patients' recreation fund;
(2) students' recreation fund; or
as the
(3) inmates' recreation fund.
(b) These funds shall be used, at the discretion of the superintendent
or warden subject to the approval of the chief administrative officer of
the department, division, or state agency having administrative control
and supervision over the institution, for the direct benefit of persons
who are inmates or patients in such institutions, and shall not be used
for any purposes which are covered by state appropriations.
Provided,
That such
(c) The funds shall be expended for
such purposes
and in
accordance with the policies of the department, division, or state
agency having administrative control over such institution. The
expenditures may include, but shall not necessarily be are not limited
to:
(1) purchased entertainment;
(2) magazine subscriptions for the libraries, wards, or units of
such institutions;
(3) special recreational equipment and supplies;
(4) special foods for parties or celebrations;
(5) educational materials;
(6) phonograph records, televisions, radios, and similar items
when the same items cannot be purchased from regular
appropriations; and
(7) such any other purposes not covered by regular
appropriations; which
that will provide a direct benefit to or assist in the rehabilitation of
the inmates or patients of such institutions.