BHB/4/15
Sponsored by JaeLyn Sanders, Grace Spevak, Reese Uhrich of Baylor School
This legislation was filed in the Correction category
Presented as part of the YIG Volunteer 2024 conference
| 1 | BE IT ENACTED BY THE TENNESSEE YMCA YOUTH IN GOVERNMENT |
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| 3 | Section 1) Terms in this act shall be defined as follows: |
| 4 | a. Mistreatment: to treat badly or ill treatment of someone or something |
| 5 | b. Rehabilitation: the action of restoring someone to health or normal life through training and |
| 6 | therapy after imprisonment, addiction, or illness. |
| 7 | c. Narcotics Anonymous: support group for those attempting to recover from drugs other than just |
| 8 | alcohol |
| 9 | d. Incarcerated addicts:People in prison who suffer from addiction to substances |
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| 11 | Section 2) A partnership with Narcotics Anonymous, a support group for people struggling with |
| 12 | addiction, will be established to assist addicted inmates. |
| 13 | a. We will hold support group meeting in the prison for the incarcerated addicts |
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| 15 | Section 3) 600 million USD of state budget funding will be reallocated military expenditures to |
| 16 | establish programs for addicts. |
| 17 | a) 100 million towards increasing mental health support within prisons for incarcerated addicts. |
| 18 | b) 200 million towards partnership with Narcotics Anonymous to further support inmates in |
| 19 | prisons. Partnership includes inmate support groups, mentoring. |
| 20 | c) 100 million towards increased medical resources for incarcerated addicts going through |
| 21 | withdrawal. |
| 22 | d) 300 million towards building a program with Living Sober to help rebuild ex incarcerated addicts |
| 23 | lives and help them reenter society. |
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| 26 | Section 4) This act shall be funded by State Liquor Tax, and Tennessee Department of Mental |
| 27 | Health and Substance Abuse Services |
| 28 | Section 5) Prison wardens in both state prisons and privately contracted prisons will be required by |
| 29 | the Tennessee Department of Corrections to mandate the participation of addicted inmates in |
| 30 | substance abuse rehabilitation programs. |
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| 32 | Section 6) All laws or parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. |
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| 34 | Section 7) This act shall take effect on September 20th , 2025 |
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