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       2022 Legislature                                          SB 454
       
       
       
       
       
       
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    2         An act relating to the Florida Commission on Offender
    3         Review; amending s. 947.04, F.S.; increasing the rate
    4         of payment for work performed by retired or former
    5         commissioners assigned to temporary duty; providing an
    6         effective date.
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    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 947.04, Florida
   11  Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         947.04 Organization of commission; officers; offices.—
   13         (1) Before July 1 of each even-numbered year, the Governor
   14  and Cabinet shall select a chair who shall serve for a period of
   15  2 years and until a successor is selected and qualified. The
   16  Governor and Cabinet shall, at the same time that a chair is
   17  selected, select a vice chair to serve during the same 2-year
   18  period as the chair, in the absence of the chair. The chair may
   19  succeed himself or herself. The chair, as chief administrative
   20  officer of the commission, has the authority and responsibility
   21  to plan, direct, coordinate, and execute the powers, duties, and
   22  responsibilities assigned to the commission, except those of
   23  granting and revoking parole as provided for in this chapter.
   24  Subject to approval by the Governor and the Cabinet, the chair
   25  may assign consenting retired commissioners or former
   26  commissioners to temporary duty when there is a workload need.
   27  Any such commissioner shall be paid $200 $100 for each day or
   28  portion of a day spent on the work of the commission and shall
   29  be reimbursed for travel expenses as provided in s. 112.061. The
   30  chair is authorized to provide or disseminate information
   31  relative to parole by means of documents, seminars, programs, or
   32  otherwise as he or she determines necessary. The chair shall
   33  establish, execute, and be held accountable for all
   34  administrative policy decisions. However, decisions to grant or
   35  revoke parole shall be made in accordance with the provisions of
   36  ss. 947.172, 947.174, and 947.23. The commissioners shall be
   37  directly accountable to the chair in the execution of their
   38  duties as commissioners, and the chair has authority to
   39  recommend to the Governor suspension of a commissioner who fails
   40  to perform the duties provided for by statute.
   41         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022.