Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 696
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Hutson) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 129.021, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    6  read:
    7         129.021 County officer budget information.—
    8         (1) Notwithstanding any other provision provisions of law,
    9  the budgets of all county officers, as submitted to the board of
   10  county commissioners, must be in sufficient detail and contain
   11  such information as the board of county commissioners may
   12  require in furtherance of their powers and responsibilities
   13  provided in ss. 125.01(1)(q), (r), and (v), and (6) and
   14  129.01(2)(b).
   15         (2)(a) The tentative and final budgets of each
   16  constitutional officer must be posted on the county’s official
   17  website and must provide a separate narrative explaining the
   18  budget priorities of the constitutional officer. This may be
   19  accomplished by posting to the county’s official website a link
   20  to the constitutional officer’s website.
   21         (b) The tentative budget for each constitutional officer
   22  must be posted on the county’s official website at least 2 days
   23  before the public hearing and must be identified separately from
   24  the tentative budget of the county as a whole to clearly
   25  demarcate the constitutional officer’s budget.
   26         Section 2. Present subsection (6) of section 195.087,
   27  Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (7) and amended,
   28  and a new subsection (6) is added to that section, to read:
   29         195.087 Property appraisers and tax collectors to submit
   30  budgets to Department of Revenue.—
   31         (6)(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
   32  tentative and final budgets of each property appraiser and tax
   33  collector must be detailed and must provide:
   34         1. A separate line item for proposed expenditures for each
   35  program, division, or unit within the office.
   36         2. Existing and proposed reserves.
   37         3. A separate narrative explaining:
   38         a. The budget priorities of the property appraiser or tax
   39  collector.
   40         b. Each budget line item that is unchanged from the budget
   41  for the prior fiscal year.
   42         c. Each budget line item that is increased or decreased
   43  from the budget for the prior fiscal year, with an explanation
   44  for the increase or decrease.
   45         (b) The tentative budget must be posted on each property
   46  appraiser’s and tax collector’s official website at the same
   47  time the tentative budget is submitted to the Department of
   48  Revenue.
   49         (7)(6) Each property appraiser and tax collector must post
   50  their final approved budget on their official website within 30
   51  days after adoption and the budget must remain posted for the
   52  fiscal year covered by the budget. Each county’s official
   53  website must have a link to the websites of the property
   54  appraiser or tax collector where the final approved budget is
   55  posted. If the property appraiser or tax collector does not have
   56  an official website, the final approved budget must be posted on
   57  the county’s official website and the budget must remain posted
   58  for the fiscal year covered by the budget.
   59         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
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   61  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   62  And the title is amended as follows:
   63         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   64  and insert:
   65                        A bill to be entitled                      
   66         An act relating to the budgets of county
   67         constitutional officers; amending s. 129.021, F.S.;
   68         requiring the tentative and final budgets of a county
   69         constitutional officer to be posted on the county’s
   70         website, subject to certain requirements; amending s.
   71         195.087, F.S.; providing criteria for submission of
   72         tentative and final budgets by the property appraiser
   73         and tax collector; requiring the tentative and final
   74         budgets to be posted on the website of the property
   75         appraiser or tax collector if such a website exists,
   76         subject to certain requirements; providing an
   77         effective date.