[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
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[H.R. 3512 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 3512

    To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to Federal 
                   prisoners, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 19, 1998

 Mr. Christensen introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                     the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to Federal 
                   prisoners, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Pay for Your Stay Act''.

SEC. 2. WORK REQUIREMENTS FOR PRISONERS.

    (a) In General.--Chapter 301 of title 18, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 4014. Work requirement for prisoners
    ``(a) The Attorney General shall establish by rule--
            ``(1) the requirement that Federal prisoners that are able 
        to do so engage in work and that such prisoners work at least 
        48 hours each week;
            ``(2) the requirement that Federal prisoners engage in 
        educational study for at least 12 hours each week;
            ``(3) that no television viewing will be provided to 
        Federal prisoners, except educational programs; and
            ``(4) that a 25 percent assessment be levied on all wages 
        earned by Federal prisoners, with 5 percent returned to the 
        prosecuting agency to help reimburse the cost of the 
        prosecution, 10 percent set aside for victim restitution, and 
        10 percent placed in the Fund created by subsection (b).
    ``(b) There is established in the Treasury the James Wilson, Jr. 
Fund (referred to in this section as the `Fund'). The Fund shall 
consist of moneys placed in it under subsection (a). The Attorney 
General shall distribute the money in the fund equally between--
            ``(1) State and local programs whose primary purpose is to 
        provide training and purchase equipment designed to protect 
        peace officers from personal injury in the line of duty 
        resulting from the criminal acts of third parties; and
            ``(2) to families of local, State, and Federal peace 
        officers killed in the line of duty;
according to such procedures, and in such amounts, as the Attorney 
General shall by rule establish.
    ``(c) The Attorney General, in consultation with the appropriate 
authorities of States, the District of Columbia, and other territories 
and possessions of the United States, shall establish a system whereby 
inmate labor may be utilized, with or without compensation, to 
undertake activities to mediate the damage caused by an impending 
natural disaster or to remediate the damage done by such a disaster.''.
    (b) No Adverse Impact on Business Concerns and Their Law-Abiding 
Employees.--Chapter 301 of title 18, United States Code, as amended by 
subsection (a), is further amended by adding at the end the following:
``Sec. 4015. Protection from unfair competition by prison labor
    ``(a) Work Opportunities Within Federal Correctional 
Institutions.--In implementing the requirements of section 4014(a), the 
Attorney General shall--
            ``(1) maximize the employment of inmates with respect to 
        the operation and maintenance of Federal corrections 
        institutions; and
            ``(2) maximize the employment of inmates in work-based 
        vocational education and skill training activities designed to 
        prepare participating inmates for gainful employment after 
        release, while avoiding, to the maximum extent practicable, 
        expanding sales of any resulting products or services pursuant 
        to section 4124.
    ``(b) Minimizing Unfair Competition With the Private Sector.--Any 
expansion in the inmate production of products or services to be 
offered for sale resulting from the implementation of section 4014(a)--
            ``(1) may be sold only through Federal Prison Industries to 
        Federal agencies on a competitive basis pursuant to either 
        section 303 of the Federal Property and Administrative Services 
        Act of 1949 (41 U.S.C. 253) or section 2304 of title 10, United 
        States Code, and their implementing regulations; and
            ``(2) shall be approved for sale by the Board of Directors 
        of Federal Prison Industries pursuant to section 4122(b), after 
        determining that the proposed volume of sales is not expected 
        to have an adverse impact on sales to the Government by a 
        private sector contractor offering the same specific product or 
        service.
    ``(c) Disaster Remediation Activities by Inmates.--In implementing 
section 4014(c), the Attorney General shall--
            ``(1) maximize the use of inmate labor to augment 
        governmental personnel and community volunteers in preparing 
        for a natural disaster or in conducting remediation activities 
        during the period immediately after such a disaster; and
            ``(2) assure that inmate labor does not supplant post-
        disaster remediation activities that would otherwise be 
        performed under contract by private sector firms employed by an 
        affected individual or governmental entity.''.
    (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of 
chapter 301 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following new items:

``4014. Work requirement for prisoners.
``4015. Protection from unfair competition by prison labor.''.

SEC. 3. REQUIRED STATEMENT OF ASSETS.

    Section 1915(a)(2) of title 28, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end the following: ``Such prisoner shall also submit a 
statement of all other assets such prisoner possesses.''.
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