FIRST REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 301
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR ROBERTS.
0528S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To amend chapters 217 and 221, RSMo, by adding thereto two new sections relating to inmate
domestic phone call fees.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Chapters 217 and 221, RSMo, are a mended by 1
adding thereto two new sections, to be known as sections 217.451 2
and 221.108, to read as follows:3
217.451. No correctional center or other party shall 1
charge an offender in a correctional center a total amount 2
for a domestic phone call, including fees and any per -minute 3
rate, that exceeds the equivalent of twelve cents per minute. 4
221.108. No jail or other party shall charge an inmate 1
in a jail a total amount for a domestic phone call, 2
including fees and any per -minute rate, that exceeds the 3
equivalent of: 4
(1) Fourteen cents per minute for any jail with an 5
average daily population of one thousand or more inmates; or 6
(2) Twenty-one cents per minute for any jail with an 7
average daily population of fewer than one thousand inmates. 8