Florida Senate - 2023                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/HB 543, 1st Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Jones moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 2430 and 2431
    4  insert:
    5         Section 43. Community Violence Task Force.—
    6         (1) The Community Violence Task Force, a task force as
    7  defined in s. 20.03(8), Florida Statutes, is created within the
    8  Department of Law Enforcement. Except as otherwise provided in
    9  this section, the task force shall comply with the requirements
   10  of s. 20.052, Florida Statutes.
   11         (2)(a) The task force is composed of 15 members as follows:
   12         1. Four members appointed by the Governor, one of whom the
   13  Governor shall designate as the chair of the task force.
   14         2. Four members appointed by the President of the Senate,
   15  two of whom must be members of the Legislative Black Caucus of
   16  the Senate.
   17         3. Four members appointed by the Speaker of the House of
   18  Representatives, two of whom must be members of the Legislative
   19  Black Caucus of the House of Representatives.
   20         4. A representative from the Florida Sheriffs Association,
   21  nominated by the executive director and appointed by the
   22  Governor.
   23         5. A representative from the Florida Police Chiefs
   24  Association, nominated by the executive director and appointed
   25  by the Governor.
   26         6. The Secretary of Children and Families, or his or her
   27  designee.
   28         (b) Members must be appointed no later than August 1, 2023.
   29  Members serve at the pleasure of the officer who appointed them,
   30  and a vacancy on the task force must be filled in the same
   31  manner as the original appointment. Members of the task force
   32  shall serve without compensation but are entitled to
   33  reimbursement for per diem and travel expenses pursuant to s.
   34  112.061, Florida Statutes.
   35         (c) The task force shall meet upon the call of the chair at
   36  a time and location in this state designated by the chair. The
   37  task force may not conduct its meetings by teleconference or
   38  other electronic means.
   39         (3) The task force shall review system failures and the
   40  causes of high crime rates and violence in urban core
   41  neighborhoods and communities. In addition, the task force shall
   42  develop recommendations for solutions, programs, services, and
   43  strategies for improved interagency communication between local
   44  and state governmental agencies to help facilitate the reduction
   45  of crime and violence in urban core neighborhoods and
   46  communities.
   47         (4) The Department of Law Enforcement shall provide
   48  staffing and administrative assistance to the task force in
   49  performing its duties. The task force may call upon other state
   50  agencies for such professional assistance as may be needed in
   51  the discharge of its duties, and such agencies shall provide
   52  such assistance in a timely manner.
   53         (5) Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the task
   54  force may request and must be provided access to any information
   55  or records that pertain to crime or violent incidents in this
   56  state’s urban core neighborhoods and communities. Information or
   57  records obtained by the task force which are otherwise exempt or
   58  confidential and exempt must retain such exempt or confidential
   59  and exempt status, and the task force may not disclose any such
   60  information or records.
   61         (6) The task force shall submit a report on its findings
   62  and recommendations to the Governor, the President of the
   63  Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by June
   64  1, 2025.
   65         (7) This section expires June 30, 2025.
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   67  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   68  And the title is amended as follows:
   69         Delete line 124
   70  and insert:
   71         providing appropriations; creating the Community
   72         Violence Task Force within the Department of Law
   73         Enforcement; providing for membership, duties, and
   74         meetings of the task force; requiring state agencies
   75         to provide assistance when requested; authorizing the
   76         task force to receive exempt or confidential and
   77         exempt information and specifying that the information
   78         maintains such status; requiring the task force to
   79         submit a report to the Governor and Legislature by a
   80         specified date; providing for expiration of the task
   81         force; providing effective dates.