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SB1012 • 2026

Inmate Services

Inmate Services

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Yarborough
Last action
2026-03-05
Official status
Senate - Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/CS/HB 913 -SJ 619
Effective date
2026-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

Inmate Services

Inmate Services; Requiring that maintenance and repair deduction fees from contractor-operated correctional facilities be deposited in the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund; requiring that funds from the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund be used for specified purposes, etc.

What This Bill Does

  • Inmate Services; Requiring that maintenance and repair deduction fees from contractor-operated correctional facilities be deposited in the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund; requiring that funds from the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund be used for specified purposes, etc.

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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631746

Committee amendment S 1012 Filed • Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice (Yarborough)

Replaced by Committee Substitute 2/12/2026

Plain English: Florida Senate - 2026 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No.

  • Florida Senate - 2026 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No.
  • SB 1012 Ì6317468Î631746 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate .
  • House Comm: RCS .
  • 02/12/2026 .
264582

Committee amendment S 1012 c1 • Appropriations (Yarborough)

Replaced by Committee Substitute 3/3/2026

Plain English: Florida Senate - 2026 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No.

  • Florida Senate - 2026 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No.
  • CS for SB 1012 Ì2645827Î264582 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate .
  • House Comm: RCS .
  • 03/03/2026 .

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-05 Senate

    • Read 2nd time -SJ 619 • Substituted CS/CS/CS/HB 913 -SJ 619 • Laid on Table, refer to CS/CS/CS/HB 913 -SJ 619

  2. 2026-03-04 Senate

    • Placed on Calendar, on 2nd reading • Placed on Special Order Calendar, 03/05/26

  3. 2026-03-03 Senate

    • Pending reference review -under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) • CS/CS by Appropriations read 1st time

  4. 2026-03-02 Senate

    • CS/CS by- Appropriations; YEAS 17 NAYS 0

  5. 2026-02-25 Senate

    • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations, 03/02/26, 12:00 pm, 110 Senate Building

  6. 2026-02-18 Senate

    • CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice read 1st time

  7. 2026-02-16 Senate

    • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute) • Now in Appropriations

  8. 2026-02-12 Senate

    • CS by Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; YEAS 5 NAYS 0

  9. 2026-02-09 Senate

    • On Committee agenda-- Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice, 02/12/26, 4:30 pm, 37 Senate Building

  10. 2026-02-03 Senate

    • Now in Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice

  11. 2026-02-02 Senate

    • Favorable by Criminal Justice; YEAS 8 NAYS 0

  12. 2026-01-28 Senate

    • On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 02/02/26, 3:30 pm, 37 Senate Building

  13. 2026-01-13 Senate

    • Introduced

  14. 2026-01-07 Senate

    • Referred to Criminal Justice; Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice; Appropriations

  15. 2025-12-29 Senate

    • Filed

Official Summary Text

Inmate Services; Requiring that maintenance and repair deduction fees from contractor-operated correctional facilities be deposited in the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund; requiring that funds from the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund be used for specified purposes, etc.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
Florida Senate
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2026

CS for CS for SB 1012

By
the Committee on Appropriations; the Appropriations Committee
on Criminal and Civil Justice; and Senator Yarborough

576-03339-26 20261012c2
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to inmate services; amending s.
3 945.215, F.S.; requiring that maintenance and repair
4 deduction fees from contractor-operated correctional
5 facilities be deposited in the Contractor-Operated
6 Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund; requiring that
7 funds from the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate
8 Welfare Trust Fund be used for specified purposes;
9 reenacting s. 944.72(1), F.S., relating to the
10 Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust
11 Fund, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 945.215,
12 F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective
13 date.
14
15 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
16
17 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section
18 945.215, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
19 945.215 Inmate welfare and employee benefit trust funds.—
20 (3) CONTRACTOR-OPERATED INSTITUTIONS INMATE WELFARE TRUST
21 FUND; CONTRACTOR-OPERATED CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES.—
22 (b)1. The net proceeds derived from inmate canteens,
23 vending machines used primarily by inmates, telephone
24 commissions, and similar sources at contractor-operated
25 correctional facilities shall be deposited in the Contractor
26 Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund.
27
2.

Maintenance and repair deduction fees from contractor

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operated correctional facilities shall be deposited in the

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Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare Trust Fund.

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3.

Funds in the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate

31
Welfare Trust Fund shall be used exclusively to provide for or

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to
operate any of the following at contractor-operated

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correctional facilities:

34
a.

Programs to aid inmates’ reintegration into society.

35
b.

Environmental health upgrades to facilities, including

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fixed capital outlay for repairs and maintenance that would

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improve environmental conditions of the correctional facilities.

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4.
2.
Funds in the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate
39 Welfare Trust Fund shall be expended only pursuant to
40 legislative appropriation.
41 Section 2. For the purpose of incorporating the amendment
42 made by this act to section 945.215, Florida Statutes, in a
43 reference thereto, subsection (1) of section 944.72, Florida
44 Statutes, is reenacted to read:
45 944.72 Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare
46 Trust Fund.—
47 (1) There is hereby created in the Department of
48 Corrections the Contractor-Operated Institutions Inmate Welfare
49 Trust Fund. The purpose of the trust fund shall be the benefit
50 and welfare of inmates incarcerated in contractor-operated
51 correctional facilities under contract with the department
52 pursuant to this chapter or chapter 957. Moneys shall be
53 deposited in the trust fund and expenditures made from the trust
54 fund as provided in s. 945.215.
55 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2026.