A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the legislative research commission to study the FEASIBILITY of using inmate labor to rehabilitate unused state‑owned buildings and to salvage historical PROPERTIES that have fallen into disrepair.
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
SECTION 1.  The Legislative Research Commission is authorized to study the feasibility of using inmate labor to rehabilitate unused State‑owned buildings and to salvage historical properties that have fallen into disrepair. As part of the study, the Commission shall develop an inventory of eligible facilities for rehabilitation and those buildings plotted on a State map. The Commission shall look at issues, including, but not limited to, the State purposes to be served by such expanded use of inmate labor, the value to inmate reentry when sentences are complete, the means by which inmates can qualify for such work, the logistics of using inmate labor for such projects, the role of the Community College System in training inmates for such projects, and the skills that can be taught and utilized and their overall usefulness to former inmates after the Department of Correction supervision ends. The Commission may also consider whether such expanded use of inmate labor should have a 10‑year sunset for purposes of reviewing the State benefit and the state of the economy at that time.
SECTION 2.  The Legislative Research Commission may make an interim report to the 2011 General Assembly, including any proposed legislation, when it reconvenes in 2012 and shall make its final report, including any proposed legislation, to the 2013 General Assembly.
SECTION 3.  The Legislative Services Officer shall allocate funds appropriated to the General Assembly for the expenditures of the Legislative Services Commission in conducting this study.
SECTION 4.  This resolution is effective upon ratification.