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.





Avery , Porter , Ayres
(SENATE SPONSORS _ YOUNG R MICHAEL, BOWSER)




    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.