Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 590
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       (Hooper) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (5) of section 40.29, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         40.29 Payment of due-process costs.—
    8         (5) The Justice Administrative Commission shall provide
    9  funds to the clerks of the court to compensate jurors, to pay
   10  for meals or lodging provided to jurors, and to pay for jury
   11  related personnel and operational costs as provided in this
   12  section. Each clerk of the court shall submit a request for
   13  reimbursement forward to the Florida Clerks of Court Operations
   14  Corporation within 20 days after each quarter attesting to the
   15  clerk’s actual costs Justice Administrative Commission a
   16  quarterly estimate of funds necessary to compensate jurors, to
   17  and pay for meals or lodging provided to jurors, and to pay for
   18  jury-related personnel and operational costs during the upcoming
   19  quarter. The Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation
   20  shall review the request for reimbursement to ensure that the
   21  costs are reasonably and directly related to jury management.
   22  The Florida Clerks of Court Operations Corporation shall forward
   23  to the Justice Administrative Commission a quarterly estimate of
   24  the amount necessary to reimburse each clerk of the court unless
   25  the total request for reimbursement by the clerks exceeds the
   26  quarterly funds available to the Justice Administrative
   27  Commission, in which case the Florida Clerks of Court Operations
   28  Corporation shall adjust the cumulative total to match the
   29  available funds before submitting the request to the Justice
   30  Administrative Commission for its personnel and other costs
   31  related to jury management. Upon receipt of each request for
   32  reimbursement such estimates, the Justice Administrative
   33  Commission shall review determine the amount deemed necessary
   34  for payment to the clerks of the court for the most recently
   35  completed during the upcoming quarter, determine if the total
   36  payment amount is available, and submit a request for payment to
   37  the Chief Financial Officer. If the Justice Administrative
   38  Commission believes that the amount appropriated by the
   39  Legislature is insufficient to meet such costs during the
   40  remaining part of the state fiscal year, the commission may
   41  apportion the funds appropriated in the General Appropriations
   42  Act for those purposes among the several counties, basing the
   43  apportionment upon the amount expended for such purposes in each
   44  county during the prior fiscal year, in which case, the Chief
   45  Financial Officer shall issue the appropriate apportioned amount
   46  by warrant to each county. The clerks of the court are
   47  responsible for any compensation to jurors, for payments for
   48  meals or lodging provided to jurors, and for jury-related
   49  personnel and operational costs that exceed the funding provided
   50  in the General Appropriations Act for these purposes.
   51  Reimbursements under this subsection are not subject to s.
   52  215.97 or s. 215.985.
   53         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
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   55  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   56  And the title is amended as follows:
   57         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   58  and insert:
   59                        A bill to be entitled                      
   60         An act relating to clerks of the court; amending s.
   61         40.29, F.S.; revising the types of funding the Justice
   62         Administrative Commission is required provide to the
   63         clerks of the court for specified jury-related costs;
   64         requiring the clerks of court to submit a request for
   65         reimbursement for jury-related costs to the Clerks of
   66         Court Operations Corporation within specified
   67         timeframes; requiring the Florida Clerks of Court
   68         Operations Corporation to review the requests for
   69         reimbursement; requiring the corporation to submit
   70         certain information to the commission; requiring the
   71         commission to review the information and submit a
   72         request for payment to the Chief Financial Officer
   73         under certain circumstances; removing a provision
   74         authorizing the commission to apportion funds among
   75         the counties for certain purposes; revising the types
   76         of costs that the clerks of the court are responsible
   77         for that exceed funding provided in the General
   78         Appropriations Act; providing construction; providing
   79         an effective date.