Senate Bill sb2680c1

    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 2680

    By the Committee on Justice Appropriations; and Senators
    Crist, Lee and Sebesta




    604-2221-05

  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.  (1)  Each felony offender assessed in

17  Hillsborough County for supervision costs that are not

18  exempted by the Department of Corrections shall simultaneously

19  pay a separate and additional $5-per-month fee to the

20  Department of Corrections.

21         (2)  The department shall remit on a quarterly basis to

22  the Hillsborough County Clerk of the Circuit Court, as ex

23  officio custodian of the funds of the county, such funds

24  collected, less the costs of administration. The department

25  shall collect and maintain an accounting of any fees assessed,

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

27  amount remitted to the clerk and shall report the accounting

28  to the clerk.

29         (3)  The clerk shall maintain such funds in a separate

30  account, invest the funds pursuant to general law, and

31  disburse the funds at the direction of the board of county

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    Florida Senate - 2005                           CS for SB 2680
    604-2221-05




 1  commissioners, less the costs of administration. The board may

 2  appropriate the funds only to offset the costs of housing

 3  state inmates in county jail facilities. The clerk shall

 4  prepare an audit of the account annually and submit it to the

 5  board.

 6         (4)  The amount deducted for the costs of

 7  administration by the clerk may not exceed 3 percent of the

 8  total revenue generated by the fee and may be used only for

 9  costs that are directly attributable to the fee.

10         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 2005.

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12          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
13                         Senate Bill 2680

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15  The committee substitute removes the provision notwithstanding
    any other law and the reference to section 948.09(1)(a)1.
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