Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 2052
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/26/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Storms)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 190 - 244
    4  and insert:
    5  
    6         Section 6. Statewide Workgroup on the Conditional Release
    7  of Sexually Violent Predators.—
    8         (1) The Statewide Workgroup on the Conditional Release of
    9  Sexually Violent Predators is created.
   10         (2) The workgroup is created for the purposes of assessing
   11  the appropriateness of placing sexually violent predators on
   12  conditional release and, based upon its assessment, making
   13  policy recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature.
   14         (a) The workgroup shall consist of five members, including:
   15         1. A representative of the Department of Children and
   16  Family Services who shall be appointed by the secretary of the
   17  department.
   18         2. A representative of the Department of Corrections who
   19  shall be appointed by the secretary of the department.
   20         3. A representative from the Florida Prosecuting Attorneys
   21  Association.
   22         4. A representative from the Florida Public Defender
   23  Association.
   24         5. A representative from the Florida Association for the
   25  Treatment of Sexual Abusers.
   26         (b) The workgroup shall elect a chair from among its
   27  members.
   28         (c) Members of the workgroup shall serve without
   29  compensation, but are entitled to receive reimbursement for per
   30  diem and travel expenses pursuant to s. 112.061, Florida
   31  Statutes, for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in
   32  the performance of their duties.
   33         (d) The Department of Children and Family Services shall
   34  provide the workgroup with staff support necessary to assist the
   35  workgroup in the performance of its duties.
   36         (3) The workgroup shall hold its organizational session by
   37  August 1, 2012. Thereafter, the workgroup shall meet at least
   38  four times. Additional meetings may be held at the request of
   39  the chair. A majority of the members of the workgroup
   40  constitutes a quorum.
   41         (4) The workgroup shall:
   42         (a) Collect and organize data concerning the practice of
   43  placing sexually violent predators on conditional release in
   44  this state;
   45         (b) Identify issues related to the use of conditional
   46  release in this state;
   47         (c) Identify the procedures, if any, used by other states
   48  to release sexually violent predators into the community and the
   49  attendant issue of supervising sexually violent predators while
   50  in the community;
   51         (d) Ascertain the costs of monitoring sexually violent
   52  predators in the community; and
   53         (e) Prepare policy recommendations for presentation to the
   54  Governor and the Legislature regarding the conditional release
   55  of sexually violent predators.
   56         (5) The workgroup shall complete its work by December 1,
   57  2012, and submit its report and recommendations to the Governor,
   58  the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
   59  Representatives by February 1, 2013.
   60  
   61  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   62  And the title is amended as follows:
   63  
   64         Delete lines 32 - 45
   65  and insert:
   66  
   67         Statewide Workgroup on the Conditional Release of
   68         Sexually Violent Predators; providing that the
   69         workgroup is created for the purposes of assessing the
   70         appropriateness of placing sexually violent predators
   71         on conditional release in the community and, based
   72         upon its assessment, making policy recommendations to
   73         the Governor and the Legislature; providing for
   74         membership on the workgroup; providing for the payment
   75         of per diem and travel expenses; requiring the
   76         Department of Children and Family Services to provide
   77         support to the workgroup; requiring the workgroup to
   78         hold its organizational meeting by a specified date;
   79         describing the duties and responsibilities of the
   80         workgroup; requiring the workgroup to submit its
   81         report