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¹957.15  Funding of contracts for operation, maintenance, and lease-purchase of private correctional facilities.--The request for appropriation of funds to make payments pursuant to contracts entered into by the commission for the operation, maintenance, and lease-purchase of the private correctional facilities authorized by this chapter shall be made by the commission in a request to the department. The department shall include such request in its budget request to the Legislature as a separately identified item and shall forward the request of the commission without change. After an appropriation has been made by the Legislature to the department for the commission, the department shall have no authority over such funds other than to pay from such appropriation to the appropriate private vendor such amounts as are certified for payment by the commission.

History.--s. 23, ch. 95-325.

¹Note.--Section 21, ch. 2002-402, provides that "[i]n order to implement proviso language following Specific Appropriation 1178 of the 2002-2003 General Appropriations Act, the Correctional Privatization Commission may expend appropriated funds to assist in defraying the costs of impacts that are incurred by a municipality or county and associated with opening or operating a facility under the authority of the Correctional Privatization Commission or a facility under the authority of the Department of Juvenile Justice which is located within that municipality or county. The amount that is to be paid under this section for any facility may not exceed 1 percent of the facility construction cost, less building impact fees imposed by the municipality or by the county if the facility is located in the unincorporated portion of the county. This section expires July 1, 2003."