957.15 Funding of contracts for operation, maintenance, and lease-purchase of private correctional facilities.—The request for appropriation of funds to make payments pursuant to contracts entered into by the department for the operation, maintenance, and lease-purchase of the private correctional facilities authorized by this chapter shall be included in its budget request to the Legislature as a separately identified item. After an appropriation has been made by the Legislature to the department for the private correctional facilities, the department shall have no authority over such funds other than to pay from such appropriation to the appropriate private vendor such amounts as are certified for payment by the department.History.—s. 23, ch. 95-325; s. 19, ch. 2004-248; s. 18, ch. 2023-268.