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SENATE AMENDMENT
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Amendment No. ___ Barcode 624264
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11 Senator Saunders moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 7. Eligible activities.--Funds received or
19 allocated pursuant to this act may be used to secure the legal
20 rights of eligible clients relating to family law, juvenile
21 law, entitlements to federal government benefits, projection
22 from domestic violence, elder and child abuse, and immigration
23 by providing legal assistance and education regarding legal
24 rights and duties under the law.
25 Section 8. Accountability.--In any contract allocating
26 funds pursuant to this act, the department shall ensure that
27 funds received or allocated pursuant to this act are expended
28 in a manner consistent with the terms and intent of this act
29 and shall provide for an annual audit of such expenditures.
30 Section 9. State support.--Programs funded pursuant to
31 this act are eligible for state support, including, but not
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1 limited to, access to the SUNCOM Network services. Accounts
2 for SUNCOM services furnished to program-eligible entities
3 shall be billed directly to the department, as program
4 administrator, and paid with the funding provided.
5 Section 10. Conditional repeal.--If any of the
6 limitations on the use of funds received or allocated under
7 this act is found to violate the Constitution of the United
8 States or the State Constitution or is otherwise found
9 unenforceable:
10 (1) The entire act shall be null and void.
11 (2) All appropriations made for the purposes of this
12 act and which are not expended are repealed.
13 (3) All unspent funds received by any entity pursuant
14 to this act or the act appropriating funds for the purpose of
15 this act shall be returned to the department for transfer to
16 the State Treasury to the credit of the fund from which they
17 were appropriated.
18 (4) No further funds appropriated for the purposes of
19 this act shall be distributed or expended.
20 Section 11. Limitation of rights.--This act does not
21 create a statutory right to counsel in any proceeding. This
22 act does not create any statutory right accruing to any
23 attorney.
24 Section 12. The sum of $2 million is appropriated to
25 the Department of Community Affairs to contract with a
26 not-for-profit organization that provides statewide funding
27 for civil legal assistance to the poor. The department shall
28 retain $100,000, and the organization shall receive $80,000,
29 for administrative costs. The remaining funds shall be used by
30 the organization for civil legal assistance pilot projects in
31 the following judicial circuits:
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1 Fourth $240,000
2 Ninth $240,000
3 Eleventh $600,000
4 Twelfth $140,000
5 Thirteenth $280,000
6 Fourteenth $120,000
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8 The funds shall only be used for legal education or assistance
9 in family law, juvenile law, entitlement to federal benefits,
10 protection from domestic violence, elder abuse, child abuse,
11 or immigration law. These funds may not be used in criminal or
12 postconviction relief matters; for lobbying activities; to sue
13 the state, its agencies, political subdivisions, or colleges
14 or universities; for class action suits; to provide legal
15 assistance with respect to noncriminal infractions pursuant to
16 chapter 316, chapter 318, chapter 320, or chapter 322; to
17 contest regulatory decisions of any municipal, county, or
18 state administrative or legislative body; or to file or assist
19 in the filing of private causes of action under federal or
20 state statutes relating to or arising out of employment or
21 terms or conditions of employment. The contracting
22 organization shall require pilot projects to provide data on
23 the number of clients served, the types of cases, the reasons
24 the cases were closed, the state dollars saved, and federal
25 dollars brought into the state because of the legal services
26 provided. The contracting organization shall provide to the
27 Department of Community Affairs, within 60 days after the
28 completion of the contract, a report on the legal services
29 provided, the state dollars saved, and the federal dollars
30 brought into the state.
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5 And the title is amended as follows:
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9 providing for conditional repeal; providing
10 limitations on rights; providing an
11 appropriation; providing for the distribution
12 of the appropriation; providing limitations on
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