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A bill to be entitled 1
An act relating to funding for sheriffs; amending s. 2
30.49, F.S.; authorizing a sheriff to transfer funds 3
between specified categories and code levels after his 4
or her budget is approved; amending s. 39.3065, F.S.; 5
authorizing sheriffs who provide child protective 6
investigative services to carry forward a certain 7
percentage of unexpended state funds each fiscal year; 8
requiring certain funds to be returned to the 9
Department of Children and Families; prohibiting funds 10
carried forward from being used in certain ways; 11
requiring that certain expenditures be reported to the 12
department; requiring certain funds to be returned to 13
the department; amending s. 129.06, F.S.; co nforming 14
provisions to changes made by the act; providing an 15
effective date. 16
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Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 18
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Section 1. Subsection (12) is added to section 30.49, 20
Florida Statutes, to read: 21
30.49 Budgets.— 22
(12) Notwithstanding any other law, a sheriff may transfer 23
funds between the fund and functional categories and object and 24
subobject code levels after his or her budget has been approved 25
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by the board of county commissioners or budget commission. 26
Section 2. Paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of section 27
39.3065, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 28
39.3065 Sheriffs of certain counties to provide child 29
protective investigative services; procedures; funding. — 30
(3) 31
(c) Funds for providing child protective investigat ions 32
must be identified in the annual appropriation made to the 33
department, which shall award grants for the full amount 34
identified to the respective sheriffs' offices. Notwithstanding 35
ss. 216.181(16)(b) and 216.351, the department may advance 36
payments to the sheriffs for child protective investigations. A 37
sheriff may carry forward documented unexpended state funds from 38
one fiscal year to the next. However, the cumulative amount of 39
state funds carried forward may not exceed 8 percent of the 40
sheriff's office total contract amount or grant agreement 41
amount. Any unexpended state funds in excess of that amount and 42
all unexpended federal funds must be returned to the department. 43
The funds carried forward may not be used to create increased 44
recurring future obliga tions or for any type of program or 45
service that is not currently authorized by the existing 46
contract or grant award agreement with the department. The 47
expenditure of funds carried forward must be separately reported 48
to the department. A sheriff must retur n all unexpended funds to 49
the department if that sheriff's office will no longer be 50
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providing child protective investigations. Funds for the child 51
protective investigations may not be integrated into the 52
sheriffs' regular budgets. Budgetary data and other data 53
relating to the performance of child protective investigations 54
must be maintained separately from all other records of the 55
sheriffs' offices and reported to the department as specified in 56
the grant award agreement. 57
Section 3. Subsection (3) of sec tion 129.06, Florida 58
Statutes, is amended to read: 59
129.06 Execution and amendment of budget. — 60
(3) Except as authorized in s. 30.49(12), only the 61
following transfers may be made between funds: 62
(a) Transfers to correct errors in handling receipts and 63
disbursements. 64
(b) Budgeted transfers. 65
(c) Transfers to properly account for unanticipated 66
revenue or increased receipts. 67
Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2022. 68