Florida Senate - 2023                                    SB 1198
       
       
        
       By Senator Simon
       
       
       
       
       
       3-01042-23                                            20231198__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to Operation New Hope; creating s.
    3         944.7071, F.S.; authorizing the Department of
    4         Corrections, contingent upon appropriation, to
    5         contract with Operation New Hope for specified
    6         services; providing an effective date.
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    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Section 944.7071, Florida Statutes, is created
   11  to read:
   12         944.7071 Operation New Hope; reentry services.—As
   13  authorized by and consistent with funding appropriated in the
   14  General Appropriations Act, the department may contract with
   15  Operation New Hope, a nonprofit organization exempt from
   16  taxation pursuant to s. 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code,
   17  to provide reentry services to inmates both before and after
   18  release from incarceration.
   19         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.