Title: State Law Enforcement Trust Fund/Department of Corrections

Summary: Creating the State Law Enforcement Trust Fund; specifying the funds that the Department of Corrections may deposit into the trust fund, etc.

Full Text:
An act relating to a state law enforcement trust fund; creating s. 945.21505, F.S.; creating the State Law Enforcement Trust Fund; specifying the funds that the Department of Corrections may deposit into the trust fund; specifying that balances in the trust fund may carry over to the following fiscal year; exempting the trust fund from specified service charges; providing an effective date. Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: Section 1. Section 945.21505, Florida Statutes, is created to read: 945.21505  State Law Enforcement Trust Fund.  (1)   The State Law Enforcement Trust Fund is created within the Department of Corrections. The department may deposit into the trust fund confiscated contraband cash as well as revenues received as a result of state criminal, administrative, or civil forfeiture proceedings and from state asset-sharing programs to support law enforcement activities within the department. ( )   Notwithstanding s. 216.301, and pursuant to s. 216.351, any balance in the trust fund at the end of the fiscal year will remain in the trust fund and be available for carrying out the purposes of the trust fund. The trust fund is exempt from the service charges imposed by s. 215.20. Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2017.