Senate Bill sb1910

    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1910

    By Senator Fasano





    11-1380A-03                                         See HB 465

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to unclaimed court-ordered

  3         payments; amending s. 945.31, F.S.; authorizing

  4         the Department of Corrections to deposit or

  5         transfer into the General Revenue Fund certain

  6         overpayments and other payments; repealing s.

  7         960.0025, F.S., relating to the allocation of

  8         certain funds from restitution or other

  9         court-ordered payments; providing an effective

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12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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14         Section 1.  Section 945.31, Florida Statutes, is

15  amended to read:

16         945.31  Restitution and other payments.--The department

17  may establish bank accounts outside the State Treasury for the

18  purpose of collecting and disbursing restitution and other

19  court-ordered payments from persons in its custody or under

20  its supervision, and may collect an administrative processing

21  fee in an amount equal to 4 percent of the gross amounts of

22  such payments. Such administrative processing fee shall be

23  deposited in the department's Operating Trust Fund and shall

24  be used to offset the cost of the department's services. The

25  department may also deposit or transfer into the General

26  Revenue Fund offender overpayments that are less than $10 at

27  the end of the offender's supervision; offender funds that are

28  not claimed within 1 year after supervision is terminated;

29  victim restitution payments that are not claimed within 1 year

30  after the offender's supervision is terminated to the General

31  Revenue Fund to fund victim programs or the automated victim

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    Florida Senate - 2003                                  SB 1910
    11-1380A-03                                         See HB 465




 1  and information and notification programs; interest earned on

 2  balances in the COPS bank accounts; and payments that cannot

 3  be identified and are not claimed within 1 year after they are

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 5         Section 2.  Section 960.0025, Florida Statutes, is

 6  repealed.

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