Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 964
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/16/2025           .                                
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       The Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice
       (Bernard) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 947.165, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         947.165 Objective parole guidelines.—
    8         (2) At least once a year, the commission shall review the
    9  objective parole guidelines and make any revisions considered
   10  necessary by virtue of statistical analysis of commission
   11  actions, which analysis uses acceptable research and
   12  methodology. Upon completion of the review, the commission shall
   13  provide the statistical analysis to the President of the Senate
   14  and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
   15         Section 2. Subsection (3) of section 947.174, Florida
   16  Statutes, is amended to read:
   17         947.174 Subsequent interviews.—
   18         (3) The department shall, within a reasonable amount of
   19  time, make available and bring to the attention of the
   20  commission such information as is deemed important to the review
   21  of the presumptive parole release date, including, but not
   22  limited to, current progress reports, psychological reports, and
   23  disciplinary reports, as well as information regarding an
   24  inmate’s use of vocational training, substance abuse treatment,
   25  educational programs, and other self-betterment programs. The
   26  commission shall review such information in determining whether
   27  to modify an inmate’s presumptive parole release date.
   28         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2025.
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   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   33  and insert:
   34                        A bill to be entitled                      
   35         An act relating to parole; amending s. 947.165, F.S.;
   36         requiring the Florida Commission on Offender Review to
   37         provide a specified statistical analysis to the
   38         Legislature; amending s. 947.174, F.S.; requiring the
   39         Department of Corrections to provide specified
   40         information to the commission; requiring the
   41         commission to review specified information in certain
   42         circumstances; providing an effective date.