Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1414
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice
       (Bradley) recommended the following:
       
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 139 - 140
    4  and insert:
    5  (9)(a) The Department of Revenue shall review county juvenile
    6  detention payments to the Department of Juvenile Justice for the
    7  purpose of ensuring that counties fulfill their financial
    8  responsibilities required in this section. The Department of
    9  Revenue shall determine whether the counties have reimbursed the
   10  Department of Juvenile Justice for the county’s share of
   11  detention costs as provided in this section. If the Department
   12  of Revenue determines that a county has not met its obligations,
   13  it must deduct the amount owed to the Department of Juvenile
   14  Justice from funds provided to the county under s. 218.23.
   15  	(b) As an assurance to holders of bonds issued by counties
   16  before July 1, 2015, for which distributions made pursuant to s.
   17  218.23 are pledged, or bonds issued to refund such bonds which
   18  mature no later than the bonds they refunded and which result in
   19  a reduction of debt service payable in each fiscal year, the
   20  amount available for distribution to a county shall remain as
   21  provided by law and continue to be subject to any lien or claim
   22  on behalf of the bondholders. The Department of Revenue must
   23  ensure, based on information provided by an affected county,
   24  that any reduction in amounts distributed pursuant to paragraph
   25  (a) does not reduce the amount of distribution to a county below
   26  the amount necessary for the timely payment of principal and
   27  interest when due on the bonds and the amount necessary to
   28  comply with any covenant under the bond resolution or other
   29  documents relating to the issuance of the bonds. If a reduction
   30  to a county’s monthly distribution must be decreased in order to
   31  comply with this paragraph, the Department of Revenue must
   32  notify the Department of Juvenile Justice of the amount of the
   33  decrease, and the Department of Juvenile Justice must send a
   34  bill for payment of such amount to the affected county.
   35  	(10) The department may adopt rules to administer this
   36  section.
   37         Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 985.6015, Florida
   38  Statutes, is amended to read:
   39         985.6015 Shared County/State Juvenile Detention Trust
   40  Fund.—
   41         (2) The fund is established for use as a depository for
   42  funds to be used for the costs of predisposition juvenile
   43  detention. Moneys credited to the trust fund shall consist of
   44  funds from the counties’ share of the costs for predisposition
   45  juvenile detention.
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   47  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   48  And the title is amended as follows:
   49         Delete line 13
   50  and insert:
   51         deleting obsolete provisions; providing for review of
   52         county payments; providing penalties; providing
   53         certain assurances to holders of bonds issued by
   54         counties; amending s. 985.6014, F.S.; deleting
   55         “predisposition”; providing an effective