Florida SB 1012: Inmate Services

Bill Text

1012 
Inmate Services 
2026-03-03T05:17:56Z 
Requiring that maintenance and repair deduction fees from contractor-operated correctional facilities be deposited in the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund; requiring that funds from the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund be used for specified purposes, etc. 
Committee Substitute 2 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 CS for CS for SB 1012 

 By the Committee on Appropriations; the Appropriations Committee 
 on Criminal and Civil Justice; and Senator Yarborough 

 576-03339-26 20261012c2 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to inmate services; amending s. 
 3 945.215, F.S.; requiring that maintenance and repair 
 4 deduction fees from contractor-operated correctional 
 5 facilities be deposited in the Contractor-Operated 
 6 Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund; requiring that 
 7 funds from the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate 
 8 Welfare Trust Fund be used for specified purposes; 
 9 reenacting s. 944.72(1), F.S., relating to the 
 10 Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust 
 11 Fund, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 945.215, 
 12 F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective 
 13 date. 
 14 
 15 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 16 
 17 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section 
 18 945.215, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
 19 945.215 Inmate welfare and employee benefit trust funds.— 
 20 (3) CONTRACTOR-OPERATED INSTITUTIONS INMATE WELFARE TRUST 
 21 FUND; CONTRACTOR-OPERATED CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.— 
 22 (b)1. The net proceeds derived from inmate canteens, 
 23 vending machines used primarily by inmates, telephone 
 24 commissions, and similar sources at contractor-operated 
 25 correctional facilities shall be deposited in the Contractor 
 26 Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund. 
 27 2. Maintenance and repair deduction fees from contractor 
 28 operated correctional facilities shall be deposited in the 
 29 Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund. 
 30 3. Funds in the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate 
 31 Welfare Trust Fund shall be used exclusively to provide for or 
 32 to operate any of the following at contractor-operated 
 33 correctional facilities: 
 34 a. Programs to aid inmates’ reintegration into society. 
 35 b. Environmental health upgrades to facilities, including 
 36 fixed capital outlay for repairs and maintenance that would 
 37 improve environmental conditions of the correctional facilities. 
 38 4.2. Funds in the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate 
 39 Welfare Trust Fund shall be expended only pursuant to 
 40 legislative appropriation. 
 41 Section 2. For the purpose of incorporating the amendment 
 42 made by this act to section 945.215, Florida Statutes, in a 
 43 reference thereto, subsection (1) of section 944.72, Florida 
 44 Statutes, is reenacted to read: 
 45 944.72 Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare 
 46 Trust Fund.— 
 47 (1) There is hereby created in the Department of 
 48 Corrections the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare 
 49 Trust Fund. The purpose of the trust fund shall be the benefit 
 50 and welfare of inmates incarcerated in contractor-operated 
 51 correctional facilities under contract with the department 
 52 pursuant to this chapter or chapter 957. Moneys shall be 
 53 deposited in the trust fund and expenditures made from the trust 
 54 fund as provided in s. 945.215. 
 55 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.