Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (181010) for SB 1718
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  04/01/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Appropriations
       (Jones) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Before line 53
    4  insert:
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    6         Section 1. Section 27.562, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    7  read:
    8         27.562 Disposition of funds.—The first $50 of all funds
    9  collected pursuant to s. 938.29 shall be deposited into the
   10  Indigent Criminal Defense Trust Fund pursuant to s. 27.525 in
   11  satisfaction of the indigent intake application fee for a
   12  determination of indigent status under s. 27.52 if the fee was
   13  not paid. The remaining funds collected pursuant to s. 938.29
   14  shall be remitted to the Department of Revenue for deposit into
   15  the Justice Administrative Commission’s Indigent Criminal
   16  Defense Trust Fund in satisfaction of the attorney’s fees and
   17  costs under s. 938.29(1)(a). distributed as follows:
   18         (1) Twenty-five percent shall be remitted to the Department
   19  of Revenue for deposit into the Justice Administrative
   20  Commission’s Indigent Criminal Defense Trust Fund.
   21         (2) Seventy-five percent shall be remitted to the
   22  Department of Revenue for deposit into the General Revenue Fund.
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   24  The Justice Administrative Commission shall account for funds
   25  deposited into the Indigent Criminal Defense Trust Fund by
   26  circuit. Appropriations from the fund shall be proportional to
   27  each circuit’s collections. All judgments entered pursuant to
   28  this part shall be in the name of the state.
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   31         And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete line 2
   33  and insert:
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   35  An act relating to the state courts system; amending s. 27.562,
   36  F.S.; revising the distribution of fees collected from persons
   37  who receive certain assistance from a public defender’s office;
   38  amending