Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Ensuring Successful Reentry Act of 2019”.
Ensuring Successful Reentry Act of 2019
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to remove the requirement that residents of residential reentry facilities pay 25 percent of any gross income earned during work release to offset the cost of being housed, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Requirement that prisoners on work release pay part of their gross income over for housing
Section 3622(c) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking all that follows after “facility if” and inserting the following: “the rates of pay and other conditions of employment will not be less than those paid or provided for work of a similar nature in the community.”.