Florida Senate - 2012 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2038
Barcode 141080
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: WD/2R .
01/31/2012 02:45 PM .
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Senator Latvala moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete lines 113 - 130
4 and insert:
5 944.7115 Department of Corrections; Southern Florida
6 Region; conditional privatization of correctional facilities.—
7 (1) If the Department of Corrections cannot within 60 days
8 after the effective date of this act, even after using its
9 reasonable best efforts and using the flexibility afforded and
10 established by this subsection, achieve a 7 percent budgetary
11 cost savings off the actual cost savings incurred by the state
12 for the 2010-2011 fiscal year for the provision of the services
13 at the correction facilities and assigned correction units
14 included in the region to be privatized under this section, the
15 Department of Corrections shall provide formal written notice to
16 the Department of Management Services that it cannot achieve the
17 7 percent cost savings. Subject to s. 287.057(1)(b)1. and after
18 receiving such notice, the Department of Management Services,
19 working with the Department of Corrections, may, through the
20 issuance of two or more requests for proposals, privatize the
21 management and operation of all correction facilities and
22 assigned correctional units, including prisons, annexes, work
23 camps, road prisons, and work release centers, which are
24 operated by the Department of Corrections in the Southern
25 Florida Region and located in Manatee, Hardee, Indian River,
26 Okeechobee, Highlands, St. Lucie, De Soto, Sarasota, Charlotte,
27 Glades, Martin, Palm Beach, Hendry, Lee, Collier, Broward,
28 Miami-Dade, and Monroe Counties, excluding the South Florida
29 Reception Center and any correction facility or assigned
30 correction unit that has been closed or scheduled for closure
31 before June 30, 2012. This subsection does not apply to nurses
32 working for the Department of Corrections in Region IV and the
33 positions of such nurses may not be privatized. In using its
34 reasonable best efforts to achieve an actual 7 percent cost
35 savings off the actual cost savings incurred by the state for
36 the 2010-2011 fiscal year as required by this section as an
37 express condition to any privatization authorized under this
38 section, the Department of Corrections shall have the
39 flexibility and authority to take all actions necessary to
40 achieve the 7 percent budgetary cost savings, including, but not
41 limited to, the authority to renegotiate contracts and
42 agreements, including, but not limited to, contracts and
43 agreements relating to the salaries and benefits of Department
44 of Corrections employees.
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47 And the title is amended as follows:
48 Delete lines 3 - 9
49 and insert:
50 facilities; creating s. 944.7115, F.S.; requiring that
51 the Department of Corrections provide formal written
52 notice to the Department of Management Services if the
53 Department of Corrections cannot achieve the budgetary
54 cost savings required by the act; authorizing the
55 Department of Management Services, working with the
56 Department of Corrections, to privatize the management
57 and operation of certain correctional facilities and
58 assigned correctional units; providing that the
59 positions of nurses working for the Department of
60 Corrections may not be privatized; providing the
61 Department of Corrections with the flexibility and
62 authority to achieve the budgetary cost savings
63 required by the act; authorizing the Department of
64 Corrections to renegotiate contracts and agreements;
65 providing a timeframe