Florida Senate - 2018                                     SB 854
       
       
        
       By Senator Brandes
       
       
       
       
       
       24-01031-18                                            2018854__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to corrections specialists; creating
    3         s. 943.1311, F.S.; authorizing the Department of
    4         Corrections to employ or appoint a person as a
    5         corrections specialist if that person is at least 18
    6         years of age and meets specified criteria; prohibiting
    7         a person from being employed or appointed for longer
    8         than a certain period of time; providing exceptions;
    9         prohibiting a corrections specialist program
   10         participant from supervising inmates; specifying the
   11         duties that a person employed or appointed as a
   12         corrections specialist is authorized to perform;
   13         providing an effective date.
   14          
   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   17         Section 1. Section 943.1311, Florida Statutes, is created
   18  to read:
   19         943.1311 Corrections Specialist Program.—
   20         (1)(a) The Department of Corrections may employ or appoint
   21  a person as a corrections specialist if he or she is at least 18
   22  years of age, complies with all the qualifications for
   23  employment specified in s. 943.13(2)-(8), and, if he or she has
   24  not fulfilled the requirements of s. 943.13(9) and (10), he or
   25  she is enrolled in an approved basic recruit training program
   26  available in the geographic area.
   27         (b) A person may not be employed or appointed as a
   28  corrections specialist under this section for more than 30
   29  months. However, a person who is employed or appointed as a
   30  corrections specialist and is attending the first available
   31  training program offered in his or her geographic area may
   32  continue to be employed or appointed until he or she:
   33         1. Fails or withdraws from the basic recruit training
   34  program; or
   35         2. Is separated from employment or appointment by the
   36  employing agency.
   37         (2) A person employed or appointed under this section may
   38  not supervise inmates, but may perform all of the other duties
   39  performed by a person temporarily employed or appointed under s.
   40  943.131.
   41         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2018.