Florida Senate - 2026                      CS for CS for SB 1012
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Appropriations; the Appropriations Committee
       on Criminal and Civil Justice; and Senator Yarborough
       
       
       
       
       576-03339-26                                          20261012c2
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to inmate services; amending s.
    3         945.215, F.S.; requiring that maintenance and repair
    4         deduction fees from contractor-operated correctional
    5         facilities be deposited in the Contractor-Operated
    6         Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund; requiring that
    7         funds from the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate
    8         Welfare Trust Fund be used for specified purposes;
    9         reenacting s. 944.72(1), F.S., relating to the
   10         Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust
   11         Fund, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 945.215,
   12         F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective
   13         date.
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   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   17         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section
   18  945.215, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   19         945.215 Inmate welfare and employee benefit trust funds.—
   20         (3) CONTRACTOR-OPERATED INSTITUTIONS INMATE WELFARE TRUST
   21  FUND; CONTRACTOR-OPERATED CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.—
   22         (b)1. The net proceeds derived from inmate canteens,
   23  vending machines used primarily by inmates, telephone
   24  commissions, and similar sources at contractor-operated
   25  correctional facilities shall be deposited in the Contractor
   26  Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund.
   27         2. Maintenance and repair deduction fees from contractor
   28  operated correctional facilities shall be deposited in the
   29  Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund.
   30         3. Funds in the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate
   31  Welfare Trust Fund shall be used exclusively to provide for or
   32  to operate any of the following at contractor-operated
   33  correctional facilities:
   34         a. Programs to aid inmates’ reintegration into society.
   35         b. Environmental health upgrades to facilities, including
   36  fixed capital outlay for repairs and maintenance that would
   37  improve environmental conditions of the correctional facilities.
   38         4.2. Funds in the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate
   39  Welfare Trust Fund shall be expended only pursuant to
   40  legislative appropriation.
   41         Section 2. For the purpose of incorporating the amendment
   42  made by this act to section 945.215, Florida Statutes, in a
   43  reference thereto, subsection (1) of section 944.72, Florida
   44  Statutes, is reenacted to read:
   45         944.72 Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare
   46  Trust Fund.—
   47         (1) There is hereby created in the Department of
   48  Corrections the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare
   49  Trust Fund. The purpose of the trust fund shall be the benefit
   50  and welfare of inmates incarcerated in contractor-operated
   51  correctional facilities under contract with the department
   52  pursuant to this chapter or chapter 957. Moneys shall be
   53  deposited in the trust fund and expenditures made from the trust
   54  fund as provided in s. 945.215.
   55         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.