Senate Bill sb1910c1

    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 1910

    By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Fasano





    307-2033-03

  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

10         date.

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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:

27         (1)  Offender overpayments that are less than $10 at

28  the end of the offender's supervision;

29         (2)  Offender funds that are not claimed within 1 year

30  after supervision is terminated;

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    Florida Senate - 2003                           CS for SB 1910
    307-2033-03




 1         (3)  Victim restitution payments that are not claimed

 2  within 1 year after the offender's supervision is terminated;

 3         (4)  Interest earned on balances in the department's

 4  bank accounts for court-ordered payments; and

 5         (5)  Payments that cannot be identified and are not

 6  claimed within 1 year after they are received.

 7         Section 2.  Section 960.0025, Florida Statutes, is

 8  repealed.

 9         Section 3.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

10  law.

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12          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
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15  Deletes a requirement that unclaimed victim restitution
    payments be used to fund victim programs or "the automated
16  victim and information and notification programs."

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