Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 346
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Criminal Justice (Brandes) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Delete lines 32 - 51
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 2. Subsection (1) of section 947.149, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         947.149 Conditional medical release.—
    8         (1) The commission shall, in conjunction with the
    9  department, establish the conditional medical release program.
   10  An inmate is eligible for consideration for release under the
   11  conditional medical release program when the inmate, because of
   12  an existing medical or physical condition, is determined by the
   13  department to be within one of the following designations:
   14         (a) “Inmate with a debilitating illness,” which means an
   15  inmate who is determined to be suffering from a significant
   16  terminal or nonterminal condition, disease, or syndrome that has
   17  rendered the inmate so physically or cognitively impaired,
   18  debilitated, or incapacitated as to create a
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   21  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   22         Delete lines 22 - 25
   23  and insert:
   24         Section 1. Present subsections (4) through (15) of section
   25  947.005, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as subsections (5)
   26  through (16), respectively, and a new subsection (4) is added to
   27  that section, to read:
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   30  And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Delete lines 4 - 5
   32  and insert:
   33         “conditional medical release”; amending s. 947.149,
   34         F.S.;