Bill Text: FL S1612 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prison Industry Programs

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-05-03 - Died in Rules, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/HB 7125 (Ch. 2019-167) [S1612 Detail]

Download: Florida-2019-S1612-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2019                                    SB 1612
       
       
        
       By Senator Baxley
       
       
       
       
       
       12-01309-19                                           20191612__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to prison industry programs; amending
    3         s. 287.095, F.S.; removing provisions that provide a
    4         limitation on the total sales by a specified
    5         corporation of certain products offered for purchase
    6         to a state agency; providing an effective date.
    7          
    8  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
    9  
   10         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 287.095, Florida
   11  Statutes, is amended to read:
   12         287.095 Department of Corrections; prison industry
   13  programs.—
   14         (3) All products offered for purchase to a state agency by
   15  the corporation organized under chapter 946 shall be produced in
   16  majority part by inmate labor, except for products not made by
   17  inmates which products are contractually allied to products made
   18  by inmates which are offered by the corporation, provided the
   19  value of the products not made by inmates do not exceed 2
   20  percent of the total sales of the corporation in any year.
   21         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.