SB139 — revise a provision related to the transportation of an inmate upon discharge from a correctional facility.
What changed between bill versions as it moved through the Legislature.
The amendment restructures the discharge assistance requirements to clarify that inmates must receive suitable clothing, money, and transportation as separate mandatory items rather than listing transportation as optional, and it removes the inmate's choice in selecting the destination by replacing "as chosen by the inmate" with a fixed set of three alternative locations. This change STRENGTHENS the bill by making all three forms of assistance explicitly mandatory while NARROWING inmate discretion over their discharge destination.
The amendment clarifies and tightens the language requiring correctional facilities to provide inmates with clothing, money, and transportation upon discharge by removing conditional language ("if not already provided" at the beginning) and specifying that transportation must go to one of three defined locations (the county of residence, sentencing county, or an equivalent distance location)—STRENGTHENING the bill's mandate by making the obligation clearer and the transportation provision more precise.