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FL S7006

Bill

Status

Failed

3/11/2016

Primary Sponsor

Criminal Justice

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Origin

Senate

2016 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Requires the Criminal Justice Estimating Conference to develop projections of prison admissions and populations for elderly felony offenders, including ethnicity and health status data

  • Expands felony battery and sexual misconduct offenses to apply to employees of private providers and private correctional facilities, not just Department of Corrections employees

  • Creates a third-degree felony for employees who knowingly withhold food, water, clothing, shelter, supervision, medicine, or medical services from an inmate with intent to cause great bodily harm, permanent disability, or permanent disfigurement

  • Prohibits inmates convicted of sexual offenses, child abuse, or forcible felonies from receiving the 60-day incentive gain-time award for earning a high school equivalency diploma or vocational certificate

  • Increases required health care system surveys at correctional institutions from every three years to every 18 months

Legislative Description

Corrections

Last Action

Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice

3/11/2016

Committee Referrals

Appropriations Subcommittee on Criminal and Civil Justice2/11/2016
Criminal Justice9/28/2015

Full Bill Text

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