SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 662 & 232

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 144208

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11  Senator Mitchell moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 829, between lines 19 and 20,

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17         Section 890.  Effective January 7, 2003, all powers,

18  duties, functions, rules, records, personnel, property, and

19  unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other

20  funds of the Correctional Privatization Commission, as created

21  in chapter 957, Florida Statutes, are transferred to the

22  office of the Attorney General by a type one transfer, as

23  defined in section 20.06(2), Florida Statutes.

24         Section 891.  Subsection (1), paragraph (e) of

25  subsection (3), and subsection (6) of section 957.03, Florida

26  Statutes, are amended to read:

27         957.03  Correctional Privatization Commission.--

28         (1)  COMMISSION.--The Correctional Privatization

29  Commission is created within the office of the Attorney

30  General for the purpose of entering into contracts with

31  contractors for the designing, financing, acquiring, leasing,

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  1  constructing, and operating of private correctional

  2  facilities.  For administrative purposes, the commission is

  3  created within the Department of Management Services.  The

  4  commission may enter into contracts with contractors for the

  5  designing, financing, acquiring, leasing, and constructing of

  6  private juvenile commitment facilities.

  7         (3)  TERMS, ORGANIZATION, AND MEETINGS.--

  8         (e)  The commission may employ an executive director,

  9  subject to approval or dismissal by the Attorney General, and

10  such staff as is necessary, within the limits of legislative

11  appropriation. The commission may retain such consultants as

12  it deems necessary to accomplish its mission. Neither the

13  executive director nor any consultant retained by the

14  commission may have been an employee or a contract vendor of

15  or a consultant to the department or the Department of

16  Juvenile Justice, or an employee or a contract vendor of or a

17  consultant to a bidder, for 2 years prior to employment with

18  the commission and may not become an employee or a contract

19  vendor of or a consultant to the department or the Department

20  of Juvenile Justice, or an employee or a contract vendor of or

21  a consultant to a bidder, for 2 years following termination of

22  employment with the commission.

23         (6)  OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL SUPPORT BY

24  DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES.--The commission shall be a

25  separate budget entity, and the executive director shall be

26  its chief administrative officer. The office of the Attorney

27  General Department of Management Services shall provide

28  administrative support, oversight, and service to the

29  commission to the extent requested by the executive director.

30  The commission and its staff are not subject to control,

31  supervision, or direction by the Department of Management

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  1  Services in any manner, including, but not limited to,

  2  personnel, purchasing, and budgetary matters, except to the

  3  extent as provided in chapters 110, 216, 255, 282, and 287 for

  4  agencies of the executive branch. The executive director may

  5  designate a maximum of two policymaking or managerial

  6  positions as being exempt from the Career Service System.

  7  These two positions may be provided for as members of the

  8  Senior Management Service.

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10  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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14  And the title is amended as follows:

15         On page 8, line 12, after the semicolon,

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18         transferring the powers, duties, personnel,

19         property, and unexpended balances of funds of

20         the Correctional Privatization Commission to

21         the office of the Attorney General; amending s.

22         957.03, F.S.; providing for the office of the

23         Attorney General to provide administrative

24         support, oversight, and service to the

25         commission;

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