House Journal: Page 1402: Monday, April 19, 1999

27   of moneys in excess of $100,000 during the fiscal year

28   beginning July 1, 1999, for the privatization of
29   services performed by the department using state
30   employees as of July 1, 1999, or for the privatization
31   of new services by the department, without prior
32   consultation with any applicable state employee
33   organization affected by the proposed new contract and
34   prior notification of the co-chairpersons and ranking
35   members of the joint appropriations subcommittee on
36   the justice system.
37     The department of general services shall,
38   notwithstanding any provisions of law or rule to the
39   contrary, permit the department of corrections the
40   opportunity to acquire, at no cost, computers that
41   would otherwise be disposed of by the department of
42   general services.  The department of corrections shall
43   use computers acquired under this paragraph to provide
44   educational training and programs for inmates.
45     It is the intent of the general assembly that each
46   lease negotiated by the department of corrections with
47   a private corporation for the purpose of providing
48   private industry employment of inmates in a
49   correctional institution shall prohibit the private
50   corporation from utilizing inmate labor for partisan
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 1   political purposes for any person seeking election to
 2   public office in this state and that a violation of
 3   this requirement shall result in a termination of the
 4   lease agreement.
 5     It is the intent of the general assembly that as a
 6   condition of receiving the appropriation provided in
 7   this subsection, the department of corrections shall
 8   not enter into a lease or contractual agreement
 9   pursuant to section 904.809 with a private corporation
10   for the use of building space for the purpose of
11   providing inmate employment without providing that the
12   terms of the lease or contract establish safeguards to
13   restrict, to the greatest extent feasible, access by
14   inmates working for the private corporation to
15   personal identifying information of citizens.
16     2.  For salaries, support, maintenance,
17   miscellaneous purposes, and for not more than the
18   following full-time equivalent positions at the
19   correctional training center at Mt. Pleasant:
20   	 $    486,847
21   	 FTEs          8.07
22     3.  For annual payment relating to the financial
23   arrangement for the construction of expansion in
24   prison capacity as provided in 1990 Iowa Acts, chapter
25   1257, section 24:

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