FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[P E R F E C T E D]
SENATE BILL NO. 200
91ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR SIMS.
Pre-filed December 18, 2000, and 1,000 copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 23, 2001, and referred to the Committee on Financial and Governmental Organization, Veterans' Affairs and Elections.
Reported from the Committee March 5, 2001, with recommendation that the bill do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar.
Taken up March 13, 2001. Read 3rd time and placed upon its final passage; bill passed.
TERRY L. SPIELER, Secretary.
0718S.01P
AN ACT
To repeal section 217.015, RSMo 2000, relating to the department of corrections, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to the same subject.
Section A. Section 217.015, RSMo 2000, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 217.015, to read as follows:
217.015. 1. The department shall supervise and manage all correctional centers, and probation and parole of the state of Missouri.
2. The department shall be composed of the following divisions:
(1) The division of human services;
(2) The division of adult institutions;
(3) The board of probation and parole; and
(4) The division of offender rehabilitative services.
3. Each division may be subdivided by the director into such sections, bureaus, or offices as is necessary to carry out the duties assigned by law.
4. The department shall operate a women offender program to be supervised by a director of women's programs. The purpose of the women offender program shall be to ensure that female offenders are provided a continuum of supervision strategies and program services reflecting best practices for female probationers, prisoners and parolees in areas including but not limited to classification, diagnostic processes, facilities, medical and mental health care, child custody and visitation.
5. There shall be an advisory committee under the direction of the director of women's programs. The members of the committee shall include the director of the office of women's health, the director of the department of mental health or designee and four others appointed by the director of the department of corrections. The committee shall address the needs of women in the criminal justice system as they are affected by the changes in their community, family concerns, the judicial system and the organization and available resources of the department of corrections.