Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (773884) for CS for SB 1118
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Brandes) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
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    3         Delete lines 102 - 146
    4  and insert:
    5  $2.5 million in any fiscal year. Any proceeds or funds that
    6  would cause deposits into the trust fund to exceed this limit
    7  must be deposited into the General Revenue Fund.
    8         (c) Funds in the trust fund shall be used exclusively to
    9  provide for or operate any of the following at correctional
   10  facilities operated by the department:
   11         1. Literacy programs, vocational training programs, and
   12  educational programs.
   13         2. Inmate chapels, faith-based programs, visiting
   14  pavilions, visiting services and programs, family services and
   15  programs, and libraries.
   16         3. Inmate substance abuse treatment programs and transition
   17  and life skills training programs.
   18         4. The purchase, rental, maintenance, or repair of
   19  electronic or audiovisual equipment, media, services, and
   20  programming used by inmates.
   21         5. The purchase, rental, maintenance, or repair of
   22  recreation and wellness equipment.
   23         6. The purchase, rental, maintenance, or repair of bicycles
   24  used by inmates traveling to and from employment in the work
   25  release program authorized under s. 945.091(1)(b).
   26         (d) Funds in the trust fund may be expended only pursuant
   27  to legislative appropriation.
   28         (e) The department shall annually compile a report that
   29  documents State-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund
   30  receipts and expenditures. This report must be compiled at both
   31  the statewide and institutional levels. The department must
   32  submit the report for the previous fiscal year by October 1 of
   33  each year to the Executive Office of the Governor and the chairs
   34  of the appropriate substantive and fiscal committees of the
   35  Senate and the House of Representatives.
   36         Section 3. Paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of section
   37  946.002, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   38         946.002 Requirement of labor; compensation; amount;
   39  crediting of account of prisoner; forfeiture; civil rights;
   40  prisoner not employee or entitled to compensation insurance
   41  benefits.—
   42         (4)
   43         (b) When any prisoner escapes, the department shall
   44  determine what portion of the prisoner’s earnings shall be
   45  forfeited, and such forfeiture shall be deposited in the State
   46  Treasury in the State-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust
   47  Fund of the department or, as provided in s. 945.215(2)(b), into
   48  the General Revenue Fund.
   49         Section 4. For the 2020-2021 fiscal year, the sum of $2.5