To provide a “template” or “place holder” for the Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Department Of Corrections budget. This bill contains no appropriations, but may be amended at a later date to include them.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the substitute (S-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To strip out a provision requiring the department to realize some savings by outsourcing some prison operations, such as food service.

To increase the procedural barriers to privatizing a prison, or particular functions in a non-privatized prison. Among other things, the department would be prohibited from realizing savings through privatization unless it saves more 10 percent compared to the current cost.

The Senate version of the Department of Corrections budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $1.991 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.936 billion, which was the FY 2011-2012 amount enrolled in 2011. Of this, just $8.7 million is federal money, and the rest is from state taxes and fees.

To strip out all of the appropriations of the Senate-passed version of the bill, leaving it as just a "shell" or "placeholder." This is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

To send the bill back to the Senate "stripped" of all actual appropriations. This vote is basically a procedural method of launching negotiations to work out the differences between the House and Senate budgets.

To concur with a House-passed version of the bill. The vote sends the bill to a House-Senate conference committee to work out the differences.

The House-Senate conference report for the Department of Corrections budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2012. This would appropriate $2.000 billion in gross spending, compared to $1.936 billion, which was the FY 2011-2012 amount enrolled in 2011. Of this, just $8.7 million is federal money, and the rest is from state taxes and fees. A Senate-passed plan to save money by outsourcing the management of one prison was not agreed to by the House. Note: House Bill 5365 contains an identical version of this conference report.