Senate Bill sb1654

    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1654

    By Senator Crist





    13-841-01

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to community control; amending

  3         s. 948.09, F.S.; revising the amount of the

  4         surcharge paid to the Department of Corrections

  5         by offenders placed on community control;

  6         providing an 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 (2) of section 948.09, Florida

11  Statutes, is amended to read:

12         948.09  Payment for cost of supervision and

13  rehabilitation.--

14         (2)  Any person being electronically monitored by the

15  department as a result of placement on community control shall

16  be required to pay as a $1-per-day surcharge an amount that

17  may not exceed the full cost of the monitoring service in

18  addition to the cost of supervision fee as directed by the

19  sentencing court. The surcharge shall be deposited in the

20  Operating Trust Fund to be used by the department for

21  purchasing and maintaining electronic monitoring devices.

22         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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25                          SENATE SUMMARY

26    Requires that an offender placed on community control pay
      for the cost of the monitoring service as a surcharge to
27    the Department of Corrections rather than pay $1 per day.

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