Florida Senate - 2016                                     SB 930
       
       
        
       By Senator Evers
       
       
       
       
       
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    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to trust funds; creating s. 944.73,
    3         F.S.; creating the State-Operated Institutions Inmate
    4         Welfare Trust Fund within the Department of
    5         Corrections; providing a purpose; providing for the
    6         termination of the trust fund; providing a contingent
    7         effective date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Section 944.73, Florida Statutes, is created to
   12  read:
   13         944.73 State-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust
   14  Fund.—
   15         (1) The State-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust
   16  Fund is created within the department. The purpose of the trust
   17  fund is the benefit and welfare of inmates incarcerated in
   18  state-operated correctional facilities.
   19         (2) Moneys shall be deposited in and expenditures made from
   20  the trust fund as provided in s. 945.215.
   21         (3) In accordance with s. 19(f)(2), Art. III of the State
   22  Constitution, the State-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare
   23  Trust Fund shall, unless terminated sooner, be terminated on
   24  July 1, 2020. Before its scheduled termination, the trust fund
   25  shall be reviewed as provided in s. 215.3206(1) and (2).
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect on the same date that
   27  SB ___ or similar legislation takes effect, if such legislation
   28  is enacted in the same legislative session or an extension
   29  thereof and becomes law.