Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 2088
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/04/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules Subcommittee on Ethics and Elections
       (Thrasher) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (539476) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 134 - 154
    5  and insert:
    6         (2)(a) A member of the Legislature may not vote upon any
    7  legislation that would inure to his or her special private gain
    8  or loss; that he or she knows would inure to the special private
    9  gain or loss of any principal by whom the member is retained or
   10  to the parent organization or subsidiary of a corporate
   11  principal by which the member is retained; or that the member
   12  knows would inure to the special private gain or loss of a
   13  relative, a business associate, an employer, or a board upon
   14  which the member sits. The member must, before a vote is taken
   15  on the legislation by the legislative body of which he or she is
   16  a member or any committee on which the member sits, publicly
   17  state to the body or committee all of his or her interests and
   18  all known interests of a relative, business associate, employer,
   19  any principal by whom the member is retained, the parent
   20  organization or subsidiary of a corporate principal by which the
   21  member is retained, or a board upon which the member sits.
   22  Within 15 days after the date on which the vote on the
   23  legislation occurred, the member must disclose the specific
   24  nature of those interests as a public record in a memorandum
   25  filed with the Secretary of the Senate, if the member is a
   26  Senator, or filed with the Clerk of the House of
   27  Representatives, if the member is a Representative. The
   28  memorandum shall be spread upon the pages of the journal of the
   29  house of which the legislator is a member.
   30         (b) A member of the Legislature is not prohibited from
   31  voting on, and is not required to make any disclosure
   32  concerning, any legislation which would inure to the special
   33  private gain or loss of the member's employer, principal, or a
   34  board upon which the member sits, if the entity is an agency as
   35  defined in s. 112.312(2).
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   38  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   39         And the title is amended as follows:
   40         Delete lines 33 - 34
   41  and insert:
   42         member; providing that the act does not prevent a
   43         member from voting on legislation which inures to the
   44         special private gain or loss of the member's employer,
   45         principal, or board upon which the member sits, if
   46         such entity is an agency; providing that the act does
   47         not require disclosure if a member's vote will inure
   48         to the special private gain or loss of a member's
   49         employer, principal, or board upon which the member
   50         sits, if such entity is an agency; providing that the
   51         act does not prevent the member from voting on a
   52         General Appropriations Act or