SB 2016-074: Amend. to Art. 1, Sect. 6 of the Constit. (Passed)

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Aye

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I do not believe there is any legal argument for considering prison to be a form of involuntary servitude. I do believe this amendment would result in a prohibition on involuntary prison labor, where prisoners are forced to work for as little as two cents per day on threat of solitary confinement. The practical effect of this amendment will not be to render prisons unconstitutional, but to force prisons to offer inmates a fair wage if they wish to entice them to work and to redefine the relationship between prisoners and prison laborers as primarily economic rather than penological, providing incarcerated workers the protections offered under the FLSA and the NLRA that they do not currently enjoy.

I object to the motion to suspend the rules.
Edit: objection withdrawn.

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Aye.

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Aye