944.72 Privately Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund. - Florida Statutes

944.72 Privately Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund.

   (1) There is hereby created in the Department of Corrections the Privately Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund. The purpose of the trust fund shall be the benefit and welfare of inmates incarcerated in private correctional facilities under contract with the department pursuant to this chapter or the Department of Management Services pursuant to chapter 957. Moneys shall be deposited in the trust fund and expenditures made from the trust fund as provided in s. 945.215.

   (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 216.301 and pursuant to s. 216.351, any balance in the trust fund at the end of any fiscal year shall remain in the trust fund at the end of the year and shall be available for carrying out the purposes of the trust fund.

History. s. 1, ch. 98-386; s. 2, ch. 2002-109; s. 7, ch. 2004-248.