Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1054
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Gruters) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsections (6) through (10) of section 397.334,
    6  Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (7) through
    7  (11), respectively, and a new subsection (6) is added to that
    8  section, to read:
    9         397.334 Treatment-based drug court programs.—
   10         (6) If the court orders a defendant to enter into a
   11  pretrial treatment-based drug court program or a
   12  postadjudicatory treatment-based drug court program, and if the
   13  defendant is ordered to document participation in self-help or
   14  other support groups and activities as an element of ancillary
   15  services, as described in s. 394.67, the court may offer the
   16  defendant an option for either electronic or written
   17  verification of such participation.
   18         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
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   21  And the title is amended as follows:
   22         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   23  and insert:
   24                        A bill to be entitled                      
   25         An act relating to treatment-based drug court
   26         programs; amending s. 397.334, F.S.; authorizing a
   27         court to offer an option for verification of
   28         participation in self-help groups or activities to
   29         certain defendants; providing an effective date.