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IN SB0232
Bill
AI Summary
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Requires county fiscal body appropriation before money from jail commissary funds can be disbursed, changing current law that allows disbursement at sheriff's discretion without appropriation.
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Removes requirement that commissary fund money be supplemental to or in addition to regular appropriations, allowing it to be used as a replacement for regular funding.
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Restricts animal-related expenditures from the commissary fund to law enforcement animals only.
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Transfers responsibility for maintaining the commissary fund in a designated depository from the sheriff to the county treasurer.
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Effective July 1, 2015.
Legislative Description
Use of money in the jail commissary fund. Provides that money in the jail commissary fund may be disbursed upon appropriation by the county fiscal body. (Current law allows such money to be disbursed without appropriation.) Deletes a provision in current law specifying that certain money from the jail commissary fund must be supplemental or in addition to, rather than a replacement for, regular appropriations. Provides that expenditures from the jail commissary fund for animals may be made only for law enforcement animals. Specifies that the county treasurer, rather than the sheriff, maintains the fund in a designated depository.
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Local Government
1/6/2015