HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 912, 1st Eng.
Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
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11 Representative(s) Barreiro offered the following:
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15 remove from the bill: all of said lines
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17 and insert in lieu thereof: school, and where persons may be
18 placed immediately after their date of release from a
19 correctional institution or a community correctional center,
20 who are in need of placement in a substance abuse transition
21 housing program, and who are considered eligible for such
22 placement by the department. However, an offender may only
23 reside in a substance abuse transition housing program upon
24 the lawful expiration of his or her prison sentence in
25 accordance with s. 944.275 or other applicable law regarding
26 percentage of sentence served. Under no circumstances may any
27 inmate be placed in contracted substance abuse transition
28 housing or contracted faith-based substance abuse transition
29 housing, until the inmate has served the entirety of his or
30 her lawful prison sentence in accordance with s. 944.275 or
31 other applicable law regarding percentage of sentence served.
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HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 912, 1st Eng.
Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
1 2. Secure facilities which provide for limited access
2 for the duration of the program for persons who have violated
3 their conditions of probation, drug offender probation, or
4 community control, and whose presumptive sentence exceeds 22
5 months.
6 (c) A system of probation and restitution centers
7 throughout the state whereby probationers, drug offender
8 probationers, and community controllees who have violated
9 their terms or conditions, and whose presumptive sentence
10 exceeds 22 months, may be required to reside while working,
11 receiving treatment, or attending school, or for persons on
12 probation, drug offender probation, or community control who
13 may be required to attend outpatient substance abuse
14 counseling and where persons may be placed immediately after
15 their date of release from a correctional institution or a
16 community correctional center, who are in need of placement in
17 a substance abuse transition housing program, and who are
18 considered eligible for such placement by the department.
19 However an offender may only reside in a substance abuse
20 transition housing program upon the lawful expiration of his
21 or her prison sentence in accordance with s. 944.275 or other
22 applicable law regarding percentage of sentence served. Under
23 no circumstances may any inmate be placed in contracted
24 substance abuse transition housing or contracted faith-based
25 substance abuse transition housing, until the inmate has
26 served the entirety of his or her lawful prison sentence in
27 accordance with s. 944.275 or other applicable law regarding
28 percentage of sentence served. The purpose of these facilities
29 and services is to provide the court with an alternative to
30 committing offenders to more secure state correctional
31 institutions and to assist in the supervision of probationers,
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HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 912, 1st Eng.
Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)
1 drug offender probationers, and community controllees and to
2 provide the department transitional-housing beds to assist
3 inmates released into the community.
4 (2) By January 1, 2002, and notwithstanding any other
5 law, the department shall ensure that at least 400 of its
6 contracted beds in nonsecure community-based residential
7 substance-abuse-treatment facilities authorized under
8 subparagraph (1)(b)1. or probation and restitution centers
9 authorized under paragraph (1)(c) are designated for
10 transition assistance for recently released inmates from a
11 correctional institution or a community correctional center.
12 These designated beds shall be provided by private
13 organizations that do not have a faith component and that are
14 under contract with the department. In making placement
15 decisions prior to the lawful expiration of sentence, the
16 department and the contract providers shall give priority
17 consideration to those released inmates who will be placed in
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