Florida Senate - 2022 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for HB 963 Ì430624ÄÎ430624 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: 1/AD/2R . Floor: C 03/04/2022 04:42 PM . 03/10/2022 04:51 PM ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senator Book moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Delete everything after the enacting clause 4 and insert: 5 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of section 6 39.3065, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 7 39.3065 Sheriffs of certain counties to provide child 8 protective investigative services; procedures; funding.— 9 (3) 10 (c) Funds for providing child protective investigations 11 must be identified in the annual appropriation made to the 12 department, which shall award grants for the full amount 13 identified to the respective sheriffs’ offices. Notwithstanding 14 ss. 216.181(16)(b) and 216.351, the department may advance 15 payments to the sheriffs for child protective investigations. A 16 sheriff may carry forward documented unexpended state funds from 17 one fiscal year to the next. However, the cumulative amount of 18 state funds carried forward may not exceed 8 percent of the 19 sheriff’s office total contract amount or grant agreement 20 amount. Any unexpended state funds in excess of that amount and 21 all unexpended federal funds must be returned to the department. 22 The funds carried forward may not be used to create increased 23 recurring future obligations or for any type of program or 24 service that is not currently authorized by the existing 25 contract or grant award agreement with the department. The 26 expenditure of funds carried forward must be separately reported 27 to the department. A sheriff must return all unexpended funds to 28 the department if that sheriff’s office will no longer be 29 providing child protective investigations. Funds for the child 30 protective investigations may not be integrated into the 31 sheriffs’ regular budgets. Budgetary data and other data 32 relating to the performance of child protective investigations 33 must be maintained separately from all other records of the 34 sheriffs’ offices and reported to the department as specified in 35 the grant award agreement. 36 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022. 37 38 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 39 And the title is amended as follows: 40 Delete everything before the enacting clause 41 and insert: 42 A bill to be entitled 43 An act relating to funding for sheriffs; amending s. 44 39.3065, F.S.; authorizing sheriffs who provide child 45 protective investigative services to carry forward a 46 certain percentage of unexpended state funds each 47 fiscal year; requiring certain funds to be returned to 48 the Department of Children and Families; prohibiting 49 funds carried forward from being used in certain ways; 50 requiring that certain expenditures be reported to the 51 department; requiring certain funds to be returned to 52 the department; providing an effective date.