Sec. 7. 34-A MRSA §3039, as amended by PL 2005, c. 329, §11, is further amended to read:

§3039. Clients' money

When any client confined in a correctional or detention facility receives money from any source, including compensation for work authorized under other sections of Maine law or by a policy of the department, the money must be deposited in that facility's clients' the department's general client account or, as provided in subsection 4, in the department's telephone call account.__Money deposited in either account must be credited to the client receiving it.

1. General client account. The commissioner shall adopt rules for use of the clients' general client account. These rules must include a provision allowing a client to remove that client's money from the clients' general client account and place it in any type of investment outside the facility chosen by the client. The chief administrative officer commissioner shall keep a record of all money in the clients' general client account and is responsible for safekeeping of the client's money while the client is in the custody of the department and for the delivery of that money to the client, subject to any collections provided for by statute or rule, upon the client's discharge or transfer to supervised community confinement or community reintegration status.

2. Interest. Any interest accruing as a result of the deposit of that money in the clients' general client account may, after first being used to defray expenses of the account, be expended by the chief administrative officer of the facility commissioner for the general welfare of all clients at that facility confined in the department's correctional and detention facilities in accordance with rules adopted by the commissioner.