Senate Bill sb2680

    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SB 2680

    By Senators Crist, Lee and Sebesta





    12-946-05                                          See HB 1687

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to Hillsborough County;

  3         providing for a fee to be paid by felony

  4         offenders in the county; providing for an

  5         accounting of such fees and remission of the

  6         fee revenues collected by the Department of

  7         Corrections; providing the duties of the clerk

  8         of the court in connection with the fee

  9         revenues remitted; providing for the use of the

10         funds by the board of county commissioners;

11         providing for costs of administration;

12         providing an effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law,

17  each felony offender assessed in Hillsborough County (the

18  "county") in accordance with section 948.09(1)(a)1., Florida

19  Statutes, shall simultaneously pay a separate and additional

20  $5-per-month fee to the Department of Corrections (the

21  "department").

22         Section 2.  The department shall remit on a quarterly

23  basis to the Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court

24  (the "clerk"), as ex officio custodian of the funds of the

25  county, any funds collected pursuant to section 1, less the

26  costs of administration. The department shall collect and

27  maintain an accounting of any such fees assessed, any such

28  fees paid by the offender, the cost of administration, and the

29  amount remitted to the clerk and shall report said accounting

30  to the county's board of county commissioners (the "board")

31  annually.

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    Florida Senate - 2005        (NP)                      SB 2680
    12-946-05                                          See HB 1687




 1         Section 3.  The clerk shall maintain the moneys

 2  remitted to it in accordance with this act in a separate

 3  special revenue account, invest the funds held on deposit

 4  pursuant to general law, and disburse the funds at the

 5  direction of the board, less the costs of administration, and

 6  the board may appropriate the funds for the sole purpose of

 7  offsetting some of the costs of housing state inmates in

 8  county jail facilities. The clerk shall prepare an audit of

 9  said special revenue account annually and deliver same to the

10  board.

11         Section 4.  The amount deducted for the costs of

12  administration by the department and by the clerk shall not

13  exceed 3 percent of the total revenue generated by the fee to

14  each, and the amount deducted for the costs of administration

15  shall be used only for those costs that are solely and

16  directly attributable to the fee.

17         Section 5.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2005.

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