REFERENCE TITLE: prisoners; dedicated discharge account; use

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-third Legislature Second Regular Session 2018

HB 2189

Introduced by Representative Boyer

 

AN ACT

 

amending section 31‑237, Arizona Revised Statutes; relating to prisoners.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Section 31-237, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended to read:

START_STATUTE31-237.  Dedicated discharge accounts

A.  Each wage earning prisoner who is committed to the department shall deposit into a dedicated discharge account of the prisoner a percentage of wages earned by the prisoner pursuant to section 31‑254.  The department shall continue to deposit the percentage of wages earned by the prisoner in the dedicated discharge account until the account registers a one two hundred fifty dollar balance or, if the prisoner is serving a sentence of natural life, a fifty dollar balance.

B.  The monies that are accumulated in the dedicated discharge account shall be distributed to the prisoner on the prisoner's discharge from the department or transfer to a community release status or to home arrest, except that the prisoner may use monies in the account before the prisoner is discharged or transferred for items and services that the prisoner will require immediately after being released or transferred. END_STATUTE