HB 0465 2003
1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to unclaimed court-ordered payments;
3	amending s. 945.31, F.S.; authorizing the Department of
4	Corrections to deposit or transfer into the Operating
5	Trust Fund certain overpayments and other payments;
6	repealing s. 960.0025, F.S., relating to the allocation of
7	certain funds from restitution or other court-ordered
8	payments; providing an effective date.
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10	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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12	Section 1. Section 945.31, Florida Statutes, is amended to
13	read:
14	945.31 Restitution and other payments.--The department may
15	establish bank accounts outside the State Treasury for the
16	purpose of collecting and disbursing restitution and other
17	court-ordered payments from persons in its custody or under its
18	supervision, and may collect an administrative processing fee in
19	an amount equal to 4 percent of the gross amounts of such
20	payments. Such administrative processing fee shall be deposited
21	in the department's Operating Trust Fund and shall be used to
22	offset the cost of the department's services. The department is
23	also authorized to deposit or transfer into the Operating Trust
24	Fund offender overpayments that are less than $10 at the end of
25	the offender's supervision; offender funds that are not claimed
26	within 1 year after supervision is terminated; victim
27	restitution payments that are not claimed within 1 year after
28	the offender's supervision is terminated to the Operating Trust
29	Fund to fund victim programs or the automated victim and
30	information and notification programs; interest earned on
31	balances in the COPS bank accounts; and payments that cannot be
32	identified and are not claimed within 1 year after they are
33	received.
34	Section 2. Section 960.0025, Florida Statutes, is
35	repealed.
36	Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.