The Florida Senate

944.473  Inmate substance abuse testing program.--

(1)  RULES AND PROCEDURES.--The department shall establish programs for random and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing by urinalysis or other noninvasive procedure for inmates to effectively identify those inmates abusing drugs, alcohol, or both. The department shall also adopt rules relating to fair, economical, and accurate operations and procedures of a random inmate substance abuse testing program and a reasonable suspicion substance abuse testing program by urinalysis or other noninvasive procedure which enumerate penalties for positive test results, including but not limited to the forfeiture of both basic and incentive gain-time, and which do not limit the number of times an inmate may be tested in any one fiscal or calendar year.

(2)  SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT PROGRAMS.--If substance abuse treatment is requested by an inmate, the department shall place the inmate in a substance abuse treatment program, if available and appropriate.

(3)  REPORTING REQUIREMENT.--The department shall, as part of its annual report, report the number of random and reasonable suspicion substance abuse tests administered in the fiscal year, the number of positive results obtained, the number of negative results obtained, the number of inmates requesting and participating in substance abuse treatment programs as the result of a positive random or reasonable suspicion substance abuse test, and the number of repeat substance abuse offenders.

History.--s. 20, ch. 92-310; s. 17, ch. 97-78.