Florida Senate - 2018                                     SB 234
       
       
        
       By Senator Bracy
       
       
       
       
       
       11-00281-18                                            2018234__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to youthful offenders; creating s.
    3         944.805, F.S.; requiring the Department of Corrections
    4         to submit a report to the Legislature by a specified
    5         date of each year on specified information regarding
    6         prisoners in the custody of the department who are of
    7         certain years of age; defining the term “state
    8         correctional facility”; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Section 944.805, Florida Statutes, is created to
   13  read:
   14         944.805 Youthful offenders; annual report.—
   15         (1) For the purpose of providing information to the
   16  Legislature on youthful offenders who are 18 to 22 years of age
   17  and within the correctional system, the department shall submit
   18  a report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
   19  House of Representatives by December 31 of each year. The report
   20  must provide all of the following information regarding
   21  prisoners in the custody of the department who are 18 to 22
   22  years of age:
   23         (a) The number of prisoners who are in the custody of the
   24  department and the security classification at which each of
   25  these prisoners is housed.
   26         (b) The number of prisoners housed at each state
   27  correctional facility.
   28         (c) The number, if any, of prisoners who have been moved
   29  from one state correctional facility to another in a manner that
   30  interrupted the prisoner’s educational, vocational, treatment,
   31  or other self-betterment programming.
   32         (d) The number of prisoners who have completed educational,
   33  vocational, treatment, or any other self-betterment programming
   34  and what specific programming was completed by the prisoners.
   35         (2) As used in this section, the term “state correctional
   36  facility” has the same meaning as defined in s. 944.115(2)(c).
   37         Section 2. This act shall take effect October 1, 2018.