FISCAL NOTE

Senate Bill 323 as introduced establishes the Alabama Education Incentive Time Act to allow inmates to receive a reduction in their sentence upon completion of an approved academic, vocational, risk-reducing, or apprenticeship program. This will increase the obligations of the Department of Corrections (DOC) by an undetermined amount to: (1) adopt rules, subject to approval by the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee, regarding the administration of education incentive time; and (2) report, to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, the amount of education incentive time awarded to an inmate.

In addition, this bill will also increase the administrative obligations of the Board of Pardons and Paroles to apply education incentive time to advance the initial consideration date and any tentative parole review date already established for an inmate and to adopt the rules necessary to implement and administer these provisions.