2021 Senate Bill 80

Appropriations: Department of Corrections

Introduced in the Senate

Feb. 2, 2021

Introduced by Sen. John Bizon (R-19)

To provide a template or "place holder" for a potential Department of Corrections budget in the 2021-2022 fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This bill contains nominal appropriations only, but may be amended at a later date to include real ones.

Referred to the Committee on Appropriations

May 6, 2021

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-2) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

May 11, 2021

Amendment offered by Sen. Paul Wojno (D-9)

To increase staff numbers in state prisons.

The amendment passed by voice vote

Passed in the Senate 20 to 15 (details)

The Senate version of the Department of Corrections budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2021. This would appropriate $2.064 billion in gross spending, of which $5.6 million is federal money.

Received in the House

May 13, 2021

May 19, 2021

Substitute offered by Rep. Thomas Albert (R-86)

The substitute passed by voice vote

May 20, 2021

Passed in the House 108 to 0 (details)

To send back to the Senate a substitute version of the bill that is "stripped" of all actual appropriations, and instead authorizes just $100 “placeholders.” This is part of a process for reconciling the House and Senate-passed department budgets for the next fiscal year.

Received in the Senate

May 25, 2021

May 26, 2021

Failed in the Senate 0 to 36 (details)

June 10, 2021

Received