Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 2010
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/04/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Smith) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 18 - 22
    4  and insert:
    5         (1)(a) The Legislature finds and declares that faith- and
    6  character-based faith-based programs offered in state and
    7  private correctional institutions and facilities have the
    8  potential to facilitate inmate institutional adjustment, help
    9  inmates assume personal responsibility, and reduce recidivism.
   10         (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the department
   11  expand the faith- and character-based initiative through the use
   12  of faith- and character-based institutions. The department is
   13  encouraged to phase out the faith-based and self-improvement
   14  dormitory programs and move toward the goal of implementing only
   15  faith- and character-based institutions.
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   17  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   18  And the title is amended as follows:
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   20         Delete line 4
   21  and insert:
   22         944.803, F.S.; revising legislative findings;
   23         providing legislative intent with respect to expansion
   24         of the faith- and character-based initiative;