2022 House Bill 5780

Appropriations: Department of Corrections

Introduced in the House

Feb. 23, 2022

Introduced by Rep. Bradley Slagh (R-90)

To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Department of Corrections budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

April 28, 2022

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 5, 2022

Amendment offered by Rep. Terry Sabo (D-92)

To remove a $53 million "negative" line item titled, "Savings from reduced populations," which would have the effect of increasing spending authorized by the bill.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Tyrone Carter (D-6)

To require the Department of Corrections to perform "home placement investigations for all parole and probation cases".

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Tyrone Carter (D-6)

To revise details of a requirement that prisons report on the number of prisoners in "administrative segregation," and the number of these who have been diagnosed with a serious mental illness or developmental disorder, by adding the number in "temporary segregation or punitive segregation," and in each in-patient mental health program, adaptive skills residential program and observation status" and more.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Amendment offered by Rep. Cynthia Johnson (D-5)

To give a one-dollar-per-hour wage increase to all prisoners employed by the department in correctional facilities.

The amendment failed by voice vote

Passed in the House 62 to 41 (details)

Received in the Senate

May 10, 2022

Referred to the Committee of the Whole

May 11, 2022

Passed in the Senate 21 to 12 (details)

To send the bill back to the House stripped of all actual appropriations except for $100 “placeholders," as part of a process to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

Received in the House

May 11, 2022

May 19, 2022

Failed in the House 0 to 106 (details)