Sec. 7. Clarifying amendment relating to services
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Section 1761 of title 18, United States Code, is amended in subsection
(a)and
(c)by striking goods, wares, or merchandise manufactured, produced, or mined each place it appears and inserting products manufactured, services furnished, or minerals mined . Any prisoner work program operated by a prison or jail of a State or local jurisdiction of a State which is providing services for the commercial market through inmate labor on October 1, 2012, may continue to provide such commercial services until— the expiration date specified in the contract or other agreement with a commercial partner on October 1, 2012, or until September 30, 2017, if the prison work program is directly furnishing the services to the commercial market. A prison work program operated by a correctional institution operated by a State or local jurisdiction of a State may continue to provide inmate labor to furnish services for sale in the commercial market after the dates specified in subsection
(b)if such program has been certified pursuant to section 1761(c)(1) of title 18, United States Code, and is in compliance with the requirements of such subsection and its implementing regulations. Any private for-profit business entity having an agreement with Federal Prison Industries in effect on the date of enactment of this Act, under which Federal inmates are furnishing services that are being introduced into the commercial market, may continue to furnish such services for the duration of the term of such agreement. Section 1761 of title 18, United States Code, is further amended— by redesignating subsections
(d)and
(e)as subsections
(e)and (f), respectively; and by inserting after subsection
(c)the following new subsection: This section shall not apply to services performed as part of an inmate work program conducted by a State or local government to disassemble, scrap, and recycle products, other than electronic products, that would otherwise be disposed of in a landfill. Recovered scrap from such program may be sold. .