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ENROLLED HB 5001, ENGROSSED 1 2024 LEGISLATURE ______________________________________________________________________________ SECTION 4 - CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND CORRECTIONS Advocacy Centers, Inc., whose Board of Directors shall develop funding criteria and an allocation methodology that ensures an equitable distribution of those funds among network participant centers that meet the standards set forth in section 39.3035, Florida Statutes. The criteria and methodologies shall take into account factors that include, but need not be limited to, the Center’s accreditation status with respect to the National Children’s Alliance, the child population of the area being served by the children’s advocacy center and the number of children provided a core service by the Children’s Advocacy Center. By a majority vote of the Board of Directors of the Florida Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers funds may be reallocated throughout the year as needed. This funding may not be used to supplant local government reductions in Children’s Advocacy Center funding. Child Advocacy Centers must certify each fiscal year that funds from this appropriation are not supplanting local governmental funds. From the funds in Specific Appropriation 1352, the Florida Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers may spend up to $428,240 for administration, contract monitoring, and oversight (recurring base appropriations project). From the funds in Specific Appropriation 1352, $300,000 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund shall be used for forensic interviews, specialized interviews, and medical assessments shared with child protection teams operating in Children’s Advocacy Centers. These funds may not be used for administrative support and may not be used to supplant funding for the child protection program operated by the Department of Health (recurring base appropriations project). From the funds in Specific Appropriation 1352, $100,000 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is provided for additional child advocacy services in Walton County and shall be added to the allocation of funds from this appropriation for the Walton County Children’s Advocacy Center (recurring base appropriations project). From the funds in Specific Appropriation 1352, the Department of Legal Affairs must provide to the chair of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee and the chair of the Senate Committee on Appropriations by July 12, 2024, the contract between the department and the Florida Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers, the Fiscal Year 2024-2025 budgets submitted by the local child advocacy centers, and the approved allocation of funds to the local children’s advocacy centers. The Department of Legal Affairs must provide monthly reports that detail the requests for monthly payments submitted by local children’s advocacy centers and the status of those requests for reimbursement. 1353 SPECIAL CATEGORIES CONTRACTED SERVICES FROM GENERAL REVENUE FUND . . . . . 3,436,000 FROM CRIMES COMPENSATION TRUST FUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,243 FROM CRIME STOPPERS TRUST FUND . . . 1,000 FROM FEDERAL GRANTS TRUST FUND . . . 100,000 FROM FLORIDA CRIME PREVENTION TRAINING INSTITUTE REVOLVING TRUST FUND . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208,408 From the funds in Specific Appropriation 1353, $1,660,000 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is provided to the Monique Burr Foundation (MBF) Child Safety Matters Prevention Education program (recurring base appropriations project). From the funds in Specific Appropriation 1353, $800,000 in recurring funds from the General Revenue Fund is provided to the Florida Sheriffs Association (recurring base appropriations project). These funds shall be used to enhance Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for law enforcement and correctional officers in local sheriff’s offices and police departments. The training must include evidence-based approaches designed to improve the outcomes of law enforcement interactions with persons who have mental health issues. Agencies who have conducted minimal or no CIT training must be given priority for training. Local law enforcement agencies may use the funds to pay necessary expenditures resulting from a demonstrated financial hardship that currently prevents officers from receiving CIT training. Funds can also be provided to local community mental health providers to provide additional CIT 236