Bill Text: FL H7127 | 2011 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Prison Diversion Programs
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-05-07 - Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration [H7127 Detail]
Download: Florida-2011-H7127-Comm_Sub.html
CS/HB 7127 |
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2 | An act relating to prison diversion programs; amending s. |
3 | 921.00241, F.S.; increasing the number of Criminal |
4 | Punishment Code scoresheet total sentence points that an |
5 | offender may have and be eligible for a prison diversion |
6 | program; providing that a prison diversion program may |
7 | require a jail term not to exceed 90 days or electronic |
8 | monitoring; providing an effective date. |
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10 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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12 | Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) and subsection |
13 | (2) of section 921.00241, Florida Statutes, are amended to read: |
14 | 921.00241 Prison diversion program.- |
15 | (1) Notwithstanding s. 921.0024 and effective for offenses |
16 | committed on or after July 1, 2009, a court may divert from the |
17 | state correctional system an offender who would otherwise be |
18 | sentenced to a state facility by sentencing the offender to a |
19 | nonstate prison sanction as provided in subsection (2). An |
20 | offender may be sentenced to a nonstate prison sanction if the |
21 | offender meets all of the following criteria: |
22 | (b) The offender's total sentence points score, as |
23 | provided in s. 921.0024, is not more than 60 |
24 | offender's total sentence points score is 66 |
25 | those points are for a violation of probation, community |
26 | control, or other community supervision, and do not involve a |
27 | new violation of law. |
28 | (2) If the court elects to impose a sentence as provided |
29 | in this section, the court shall sentence the offender to a term |
30 | of probation, community control, or community supervision with |
31 | mandatory participation in a prison diversion program of the |
32 | Department of Corrections if such program is funded and exists |
33 | in the judicial circuit in which the offender is sentenced. The |
34 | prison diversion program shall be designed to meet the unique |
35 | needs of each judicial circuit and of the offender population of |
36 | that circuit. The program may require a term of imprisonment in |
37 | jail not to exceed 90 days; electronic monitoring; residential, |
38 | nonresidential, or day-reporting requirements; substance abuse |
39 | treatment; employment; restitution; academic or vocational |
40 | opportunities; or community service work. |
41 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2011. |
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