Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 846
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/13/2014           .                                
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       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 488 and 489
    4  insert:
    5         Section 9. Section 286.012, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    6  read:
    7         286.012 Voting requirement at meetings of governmental
    8  bodies.—A No member of a any state, county, or municipal
    9  governmental board, commission, or agency who is present at a
   10  any meeting of any such body at which an official decision,
   11  ruling, or other official act is to be taken or adopted may not
   12  abstain from voting in regard to any such decision, ruling, or
   13  act; and a vote shall be recorded or counted for each such
   14  member present, unless except when, with respect to any such
   15  member, there is, or appears to be, a possible conflict of
   16  interest under the provisions of s. 112.311, s. 112.313, or s.
   17  112.3143, or additional or more stringent standards of conduct,
   18  if any, adopted pursuant to s. 112.326. If there is, or appears
   19  to be, a possible conflict under s. 112.311, s. 112.313, or s.
   20  112.3143, the member shall comply with the disclosure
   21  requirements of s. 112.3143. If the only conflict or possible
   22  conflict is one arising from the additional or more stringent
   23  standards adopted pursuant to s. 112.326, the member shall
   24  comply with any disclosure requirements adopted pursuant to s.
   25  112.326. If the official decision, ruling, or act occurs in the
   26  context of a quasi-judicial proceeding, a member may abstain
   27  from voting on such matter if the abstention is to assure a fair
   28  proceeding free from potential bias or prejudice In such cases,
   29  said member shall comply with the disclosure requirements of s.
   30  112.3143.
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   32  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   33  And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Delete line 69
   35  and insert:
   36         the commission; amending s. 286.012, F.S.; revising
   37         disclosure requirements with respect to a voting
   38         abstention at a meeting of a governmental body;
   39         authorizing a member to abstain from voting on a
   40         decision, ruling, or act in a quasi-judicial
   41         proceeding under certain circumstances; amending s.
   42         288.901, F.S.; specifying