House Journal: Page 1338: Thursday, April 15, 1999

		Absent or not voting, 7:

Boggess	Brauns	Connors	Eddie
Lord	Millage	Shoultz
The bill having received a constitutional majority was declared to 
have passed the House and the title was agreed to.
Senate File 395, a bill for an act relating to the department of 
corrections by providing for purchases from Iowa prison industries, 
the study of inmate worker safety issues, the establishment of a 
criminal offense for attempts to escape, the crediting of time served 
by inmates, inmate work program agreements, the revolving farm 
fund, and deductions from inmate work program earnings, standards 
for the employment of probation and parole officers, and making 
penalties applicable, with report of committee recommending 
amendment and passage, was taken up for consideration.
Kettering of Sac offered amendment H-1391 filed by the 
committee on judiciary as follows:
H-1391
 1     Amend Senate File 395, as amended, passed, and
 2   reprinted by the Senate, as follows:
 3     1.  Page 1, line 6, by striking the words "fifty
 4   sixty" and inserting the following:  "fifty".
 5     2.  Page 1, by striking lines 18 through 22 and
 6   inserting the following:  "prison industries.  Unused
 7   moneys".
 8     3.  By striking page 4, line 27, through page 5,
 9   line 20.
10     4.  By striking page 5, line 27, through page 6,
11   line 14, and inserting the following:  "deductions
12   required by law. The department of corrections shall
13   deduct twenty percent of the balance to 
be credited to
14   the inmate's general account.  The department 
shall
15   then deduct from the earnings remaining as 
follows:
16     a.  The department shall first deduct the 
following
17   amounts in the following order of priority:
18     The inmate's employer shall provide each employed
19   inmate with the withholding statement required under
20   section 422.16, and any other employment information
21   necessary for the receipt of the remainder of an
22   inmate's payroll earnings.
23     b.  From the inmate's gross payroll earnings, the
24   following amounts shall be deducted:
25     (1) An amount the inmate may be legally 
obligated

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