Relates to the appropriation to the Department of Correction for fiscal years 2023 and 2024.

This is the FY 2024 original appropriation bill for the Department of Correction. It appropriates a total of $354,157,700 and caps the number of authorized full-time equivalent positions at 2,170.85. The bill funds eleven line items, which provides funding for two new food service staff to assist with dietary needs, funding for the increase cost to inflation for food, clothes and other operational needs, funding to increase resident pay, three new positions and vans to expand the ability to transport inmates, and an increase for educator pay. This bill also funds an operational change to the Correctional Alternative Placement facility and allows the department to take over the facility and end its contract with the Management Training Corporation, this adds 78 positions and after adding the total needed for those position there is a total reduction of $774,800. Lastly, this bill includes three supplemental appropriations for inflation, expanding drug tests, and onetime cost to take over the Correctional Alternative Placement facility.