To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2014-2015 Department of Corrections budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To prohibit the Department of Corrections from outsourcing prison services to a company that has a "record of substantial or repeated willful noncompliance with any relevant federal, state, or local statute or regulation, including payment of taxes or other payments owed to a public entity".

The Senate version of the Department of Corrections budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2014. This would appropriate $2.025 billion in gross spending, essentially the same amount as the current year. Of this, just $4.8 million is federal money, and the rest is from state taxes and fees.

To adopt a version of the budget that contains no appropriations, but is instead intended to launch negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.