Bill Text: FL S1056 | 2020 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: PACE Center for Girls

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Passed) 2020-06-30 - Chapter No. 2020-121 [S1056 Detail]

Download: Florida-2020-S1056-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2020                             CS for SB 1056
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Criminal Justice; and Senator Simpson
       
       
       
       
       
       591-02250-20                                          20201056c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the PACE Center for Girls; creating
    3         s. 985.175, F.S.; authorizing the Department of
    4         Juvenile Justice to contract with the PACE Center for
    5         Girls for specified services; providing an effective
    6         date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   10         Section 1. Section 985.175, Florida Statutes, is created to
   11  read:
   12         985.175 The PACE Center for Girls.—As authorized by and
   13  consistent with funding appropriated in the General
   14  Appropriations Act, the department may contract, in accordance
   15  with s. 985.644, with the PACE Center for Girls, a nonprofit
   16  organization exempt from taxation pursuant to s. 501(c)(3) of
   17  the Internal Revenue Code, to provide alternatives to
   18  institutionalization or commitment for girls and young women
   19  through services including, but not limited to, education,
   20  counseling, training, and advocacy.
   21         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.