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AB-628 Prisons: employment of inmates.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 2700 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

2700.
 (a) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall develop a voluntary work program and prescribe the rules and regulations regarding work and programming assignments for individuals incarcerated in facilities operated by the department.
The (b)  (1)   Department of Corrections shall require of every able-bodied prisoner imprisoned in any state prison as many hours of faithful labor in each day and every day during his or her term of imprisonment as shall be prescribed by the rules and regulations of the Director of Corrections. Notwithstanding any state law or local ordinance governing minimum wages, compensation for any work assignment in state prison shall be set by regulations promulgated by the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. 
(2) Notwithstanding any state law or local ordinance governing minimum wages, compensation for any work assignment in county and city jail programs shall be set by local ordinance.
(c)  Whenever by any statute a price is required to be fixed for any services to be performed in connection with the work program of the Department of Corrections,  department,  the compensation paid to prisoners  incarcerated persons  shall be included as an item of cost in fixing the final statutory price.
Prisoners (d)  Incarcerated persons  not engaged on work programs under the jurisdiction of the Prison Industry Authority, but who are engaged in productive labor outside of such programs may be compensated in like manner. The compensation of such prisoners those persons  shall be paid either out of funds appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose or out of such other funds available to the Department of Corrections  department  for expenditure, as the Director of Finance may direct.
(e)  When any prisoner  an incarcerated person  escapes, the director secretary  shall determine what portion of his or her  that person’s  earnings shall be forfeited and such the  forfeiture shall be deposited in the State Treasury in a fund known as the Inmate Welfare Fund of the Department of Corrections. Fund. 
SEC. 2.
 This act shall only become operative upon the passage and subsequent approval by the voters of ACA 8 of the 2023–24 Regular Session, a measure amending Section 6 of Article I of the California Constitution.