20-1210-96 SB 2436
HOUSE SUMMARY
Creates the "Prison Safety Act of 1996." Requires the
department to adopt rules prohibiting access by prisoners o
weights and other weight training equipment. Provides an
exemption for certain prisoners for whom weight training has
been prescribed by a departmental physician for medical
purposes. Provides for weight training equipment to be
removed from the correctional system and donated to eligible
entities.
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20-1210-96 SB 2436
A bill to be entitled
An act relating to the Department of
Corrections; creating s. 944.111, F.S., the
"Prison Safety Act of 1996"; providing a short
title; requiring the department to adopt rules
prohibiting access to weight training equipment
by prisoners within state correctional
institutions; providing a medical exemption for
certain prisoners for whom weight training has
been prescribed; providing for donation and
removal from the correctional system of weight
training equipment under specified
circumstances; providing an effective date.
Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
Section 1. Short title.--This act shall be known and
may be cited as the "Prison Safety Act of 1996."
Section 2. Section 944.111, Florida Statutes, is
created to read:
944.111 Department to adopt rules denying prisoners
access to weight training equipment; medical exemption;
removal and donation of surplus weight training equipment from
correctional system.--
(1) In the interests of the safety, security, and
order of the correctional system, the Department of
Corrections shall adopt rules prohibiting access to weights
and other weight training equipment by prisoners within the
correctional system. This subsection does not apply to any
prisoner suffering from a medical condition for which weight
training is currently prescribed for bona fide therapeutic
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purposes by a physician, osteopathic physician, or
chiropractic physician who is employed by, or otherwise under
contract to, the department at the time of prescription.
(2) The department shall provide by rule for donation
by December 31, 1996, of all weights and weight training
equipment which are removed from the correctional system
pursuant to this act and which are not otherwise needed by the
department. Each recipient of such donation must be either a
district school system or other entity of state or local
government, or a charitable institution as defined by s.
199.183(2)(c), in addition to meeting any other eligibility
requirements deemed appropriate by the department.
Section 3. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section
199.183, Florida Statutes, reads:
199.183 Taxpayers exempt from annual and nonrecurring
taxes.--
(2)
(c) "Charitable institutions" means only:
1. Nonprofit corporations operating physical
facilities in this state at which are provided charitable
services, a reasonable percentage of which shall be without
cost to those unable to pay; or
2. Those institutions qualified as charitable under s.
501(c)(3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1954.
Intangible personal property shall not be deemed to be owned
by such exempt institutions if it is held in a trust of any
kind under which the institution has no present interest in
the trust principal except the right to compel the performance
of the trust agreement.
Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 1996.
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History Of Senate Bill 2436
General Bill S2436: Prison Safety Act of 1996
GENERAL BILL/1ST ENG by Crist; (CO-SPONSORS) Harden (Similar HB0095,
Compare CS/1ST ENG/ HB1411)
Prison Safety Act of 1996 creates said act; requires Corrections Dept.
to adopt rules prohibiting access to weight training equipment by
prisoners within state correctional institutions; provides medical
exemption for certain prisoners for whom weight training has been
prescribed; provides for donation & removal from correctional system of
weight training equipment under specified circumstances. Creates
944.111. EFFECTIVE DATE: 01/01/97.
03/08/96 S Filed
03/21/96 S Introduced, referred to Criminal Justice -SJ 00241
03/22/96 S On Committee agenda-- Criminal Justice, 03/26/96, 2:00 pm,
Room-A(LL-37)
03/26/96 S Comm. Action:-Favorable with 1 amendment(s) by Criminal
Justice -SJ 00325
03/27/96 S Placed on Calendar -SJ 00325
04/03/96 S Placed on Special Order Calendar -SJ 00339; Amendment(s)
adopted -SJ 00338; Passed as amended; YEAS 37 NAYS 0
-SJ 00338, -SJ 00354; Immediately certified -SJ 00338
04/03/96 H In Messages
04/09/96 H Received, referred to Corrections; Appropriations -HJ 00591
05/04/96 H Died in Committee on Corrections, Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s)
passed, refer to CS/HB 1411 (Ch. 96-312)
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