Florida Senate - 2024                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1660
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Torres moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 29.0185, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    6  read:
    7         29.0185 Provision of state-funded due process services to
    8  individuals.—
    9         (1) Due process services may not be provided with state
   10  revenues to an individual unless the individual on whose behalf
   11  the due process services are being provided is eligible for
   12  court-appointed counsel under s. 27.40, based upon a
   13  determination of indigency under s. 27.52, regardless of whether
   14  such counsel is appointed or the individual on whose behalf the
   15  due process services are being provided is eligible for court
   16  appointed counsel under s. 27.40 and has been determined
   17  indigent for costs pursuant to s. 27.52.
   18         (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), state revenues may be
   19  used by the state courts system to provide court-appointed
   20  interpreting services to nonindigent individuals if funds are
   21  available in the fiscal year appropriation for due process
   22  services and if interpreting services are provided as prescribed
   23  by the Supreme Court.
   24         Section 2. Section 29.0195, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   25  read:
   26         29.0195 Recovery of expenditures for state-funded
   27  services.—
   28         (1) The trial court administrator of each circuit shall
   29  recover expenditures for state-funded services when those
   30  services have been furnished to a user of the state courts court
   31  system who possesses the present ability to pay. The rate of
   32  compensation for such services is shall be the actual cost of
   33  the services, including the cost of recovery. The trial court
   34  administrator shall deposit moneys recovered under this section
   35  in the Administrative Trust Fund within the state courts system.
   36  The trial court administrator shall recover the costs of court
   37  reporter services and transcription; translations court
   38  interpreter services, including translation; and any other
   39  service for which state funds were used to provide a product or
   40  service within the circuit.
   41         (2) This section does not authorize cost recovery for
   42  court-appointed interpreting services, except translations, or
   43  cost recovery from entities described in ss. 29.005-29.007.
   44         Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
   45  
   46  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   47  And the title is amended as follows:
   48         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   49  and insert:
   50                        A bill to be entitled                      
   51         An act relating to court interpreter services;
   52         amending s. 29.0185, F.S.; authorizing the state
   53         courts system to use state revenues, if available, to
   54         provide court-appointed interpreting services to
   55         nonindigent individuals; requiring such services to be
   56         provided as prescribed by the Supreme Court; amending
   57         s. 29.0195, F.S.; repealing the cost recovery
   58         requirement for court-appointed interpreting services;
   59         providing an exception for translation services;
   60         providing an effective date.