Florida Senate - 2012                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2038
       
       
       
       
       
       
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             02/13/2012 04:50 PM       .                                
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       Senator Benacquisto moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (284166) (with title
    2  amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 176 - 182
    5  and insert:
    6         (5)(a) The Department of Corrections shall classify an
    7  inmate without regard for and without consideration of whether
    8  the correctional facility or assigned correctional facility to
    9  which the inmate will be assigned as a result of the
   10  classification is operated by the Department of Corrections or
   11  by a contractor. Each facility’s medical and psychological grade
   12  population percentages shall remain substantially unchanged from
   13  the average daily population calculated for the 2010-2011 fiscal
   14  year. Each facility’s average daily population shall be
   15  substantially the same or greater than the average daily
   16  population calculated for the 2010-2011 fiscal year.
   17         (b) By October 1 of each year during the term of the
   18  contracts authorized under this section, the Office of Program
   19  Policy Analysis and Government Accountability shall conduct a
   20  review of the assignment of inmates by the Department of
   21  Corrections during the most recently ended fiscal year,
   22  determine the factors and considerations used by the Department
   23  of Corrections in the classification of inmates, and determine
   24  if the Department of Corrections has considered in the
   25  classification of inmates whether the correctional facility or
   26  assigned correctional unit to which inmates are assigned is
   27  operated by the Department of Corrections or by a contractor. By
   28  November 15 of each year, the Office of Program Policy Analysis
   29  and Government Accountability shall submit a report of its
   30  findings to the Governor, the President of the Senate, and the
   31  Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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   34         And the title is amended as follows:
   35         Delete lines 27 - 34
   36  and insert:
   37         requiring that the Department of Corrections classify
   38         all inmates without regard for and without
   39         consideration of whether the inmates will be assigned
   40         to facilities operated by the Department of
   41         Corrections or by a contractor; requiring that each
   42         facility’s medical and psychological grade population
   43         percentages remain substantially unchanged from the
   44         average daily population calculated for the 2010-2011
   45         fiscal year; requiring that the Office of Program
   46         Policy Analysis and Government Accountability conduct
   47         a review of the assignments of inmates by the
   48         Department of Corrections; requiring that the office
   49         submit a report of its findings to the Governor and
   50         Legislature by a specified date each year; requiring
   51         that certain accounts