Florida Senate - 2007                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 1088
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11  Senator Geller moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment 
14         On page 43, lines 1-30, delete those lines
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17         (4)  A county may not appropriate or expend any funds
18  for the offices of criminal conflict and civil regional
19  counsel, including the cost of communications services,
20  existing radio systems, existing multiagency criminal justice
21  information systems, and the cost of construction or lease,
22  maintenance, utilities, and security of facilities as
23  described in s. 29.008. Unless expressly authorized by law or
24  in the General Appropriations Act, public defenders are
25  prohibited from spending state-appropriated funds on county
26  funding obligations under s. 14, Art. V of the State
27  Constitution beginning January 1, 2005. This includes
28  expenditures on communications services and facilities as
29  defined in s. 29.008. This does not prohibit a public defender
30  from spending funds for these purposes in exceptional
31  circumstances when necessary to maintain operational
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    Florida Senate - 2007                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 1088
                        Barcode 292602
 1  continuity in the form of a short-term advance pending
 2  reimbursement from the county. If a public defender provides
 3  short-term advance funding for a county responsibility as
 4  authorized by this subsection, the public defender shall
 5  request full reimbursement from the board of county
 6  commissioners prior to making the expenditure or at the next
 7  meeting of the board of county commissioners after the
 8  expenditure is made. The total of all short-term advances
 9  authorized by this subsection shall not exceed 2 percent of
10  the public defender's approved operating budget in any given
11  year. No short-term advances authorized by this subsection
12  shall be permitted until all reimbursements arising from
13  advance funding in the prior state fiscal year have been
14  received by the public defender. All reimbursement payments
15  received by the public defender shall be deposited into the
16  General Revenue Fund. Notwithstanding the provisions of this
17  subsection, the public defender may expend funds for the
18  purchase of computer systems, including associated hardware
19  and software, and for personnel related to this function.
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