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Florida Senate - 2004 <br />309-2360-04 <br />CS for SB 2564 <br />1 Section 1. Section 985.2155, Florida Statutes, is <br />2 created to read: <br />3 985.2155 Shared county and state responsibility for <br />4 juvenile detention. -- <br />5 (1) It is the policy of this state that the state and <br />6 the counties have a joint obligation, as provided in this <br />7 section, to contribute to the financial support of the <br />8 detention care provided for juveniles. <br />9 (2) As used in this section, the term: <br />10 (a) "Detention care" means secure detention. <br />11 (b) "Fiscally constrained county" means a county <br />12 designated as a rural area of critical economic concern under <br />13 s. 288.0656 for which the value of a mill in the county is no <br />14 more than $3 million, based on the property valuations and tax <br />15 data annually published by the Department of Revenue under s. <br />16 195.052. <br />17 (3) Each county or the state shall pay the costs <br />18 incurred by the county in providing detention care for <br />19 juveniles for the period of time prior to final court <br />20 disposition. The department shall develop an accounts payable <br />21 system to allocate costs that are payable by the counties. <br />22 (4) Notwithstanding subsection (3), the state shall <br />23 pay all costs of detention care for juveniles for which a <br />24 fiscally constrained county would otherwise be billed. <br />25 (a) By October 1, 2004, the department shall develop a <br />26 methodology for determining the amount of each fiscally <br />27 constrained county's costs of detention care for juveniles, <br />28 for the period of time prior to final court disposition, which <br />29 must be paid by the state. At a minimum, this methodology must <br />30 consider the difference between the amount appropriated to the <br />31 department for offsetting the costs associated with the <br />'r' <br />CODING:Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions. <br />