FISCAL NOTE

Senate Bill 323 as passed the Senate establishes the Alabama Education Incentive Time Act and would decrease the obligations of the Department of Corrections (DOC) by an undetermined amount dependent on the number of inmates that receive a reduction in their sentence of up-to 12 months upon completion of an approved academic, vocational, risk-reducing, or apprenticeship program. This would also increase the administrative obligations of the DOC to: (1) adopt rules, subject to approval by the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee, regarding the administration of education incentive time; and (2) report the amount of education incentive time awarded to an inmate to the Board of Pardons and Paroles .

In addition, this bill would 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.