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2017 Florida Statutes
                        Chapter 215
FINANCIAL MATTERS: GENERAL PROVISIONS Entire Chapter
    
    FINANCIAL MATTERS: GENERAL PROVISIONS Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 215
                FINANCIAL MATTERS: GENERAL PROVISIONS
            
                        215.01
                        
                    Fiscal year.
                    
                        215.02
                        
                    Manner of paying money into the Treasury.
                    
                        215.03
                        
                    Party to be reimbursed on reversal of judgment for state.
                    
                        215.04
                        
                    Department of Financial Services to report delinquents.
                    
                        215.05
                        
                    Department of Financial Services to certify accounts of delinquents.
                    
                        215.06
                        
                    Certified accounts of delinquents as evidence.
                    
                        215.07
                        
                    Preference of state in case of insolvency.
                    
                        215.08
                        
                    Delinquent collectors to be reported to state attorney.
                    
                        215.09
                        
                    Delinquent collectors; forfeiture of commissions.
                    
                        215.10
                        
                    Delinquent collectors; suspension.
                    
                        215.11
                        
                    Defaulting officers; Department of Financial Services to report to clerk.
                    
                        215.12
                        
                    Defaulting officers; duty of clerk.
                    
                        215.15
                        
                    School appropriations to have priority.
                    
                        215.16
                        
                    Appropriations from General Revenue Fund for public schools, state institutions of higher learning, and community colleges; reduction.
                    
                        215.18
                        
                    Transfers between funds; limitation.
                    
                        215.195
                        
                    Agency deposits relating to the Statewide Cost Allocation Plan.
                    
                        215.196
                        
                    Architects Incidental Trust Fund; creation; assessment.
                    
                        215.197
                        
                    Federal Grants Trust Fund.
                    
                        215.198
                        
                    Operating Trust Fund.
                    
                        215.199
                        
                    Audit and Warrant Clearing Trust Fund.
                    
                        215.20
                        
                    Certain income and certain trust funds to contribute to the General Revenue Fund.
                    
                        215.211
                        
                    Service charge; elimination or reduction for specified proceeds.
                    
                        215.22
                        
                    Certain income and certain trust funds exempt.
                    
                        215.23
                        
                    When contributions to be made.
                    
                        215.24
                        
                    Exemptions where federal contributions or private grants.
                    
                        215.245
                        
                    Contracts with Federal Government; indemnification authorized in certain circumstances.
                    
                        215.25
                        
                    Manner of contributions; rules and regulations.
                    
                        215.26
                        
                    Repayment of funds paid into State Treasury through error.
                    
                        215.28
                        
                    United States securities, purchase by state and county officers and employees; deductions from salary.
                    
                        215.31
                        
                    State funds; deposit in State Treasury.
                    
                        215.311
                        
                    State funds; exceptions.
                    
                        215.32
                        
                    State funds; segregation.
                    
                        215.3206
                        
                    Trust funds; termination or re-creation.
                    
                        215.3207
                        
                    Trust funds; establishment; criteria.
                    
                        215.3208
                        
                    Trust funds; legislative review.
                    
                        215.321
                        
                    Regulatory Trust Fund.
                    
                        215.322
                        
                    Acceptance of credit cards, charge cards, debit cards, or electronic funds transfers by state agencies, units of local government, and the judicial branch.
                    
                        215.34
                        
                    State funds; noncollectible items; procedure.
                    
                        215.35
                        
                    State funds; warrants and their issuance.
                    
                        215.36
                        
                    State funds; laws not repealed.
                    
                        215.37
                        
                    Department of Business and Professional Regulation and the boards to be financed from fees collected; deposit of funds; service charge; appropriation.
                    
                        215.405
                        
                    State agencies and the judicial branch authorized to collect costs of fingerprinting.
                    
                        215.42
                        
                    Purchases from appropriations, proof of delivery.
                    
                        215.422
                        
                    Payments, warrants, and invoices; processing time limits; dispute resolution; agency or judicial branch compliance.
                    
                        215.425
                        
                    Extra compensation claims prohibited; bonuses; severance pay.
                    
                        215.43
                        
                    Public bonds, notes, and other securities.
                    
                        215.431
                        
                    Issuance of bond anticipation notes.
                    
                        215.44
                        
                    Board of Administration; powers and duties in relation to investment of trust funds.
                    
                        215.4401
                        
                    Board of Administration; public record exemptions.
                    
                        215.441
                        
                    Board of Administration; appointment of executive director.
                    
                        215.442
                        
                    Executive director; reporting requirements; public meeting.
                    
                        215.444
                        
                    Investment Advisory Council.
                    
                        215.45
                        
                    Sale and exchange of securities.
                    
                        215.47
                        
                    Investments; authorized securities; loan of securities.
                    
                        215.4701
                        
                    Trademarks, copyrights, or patents.
                    
                        215.4702
                        
                    Investments in publicly traded companies operating in Northern Ireland.
                    
                        215.471
                        
                    Divestiture by the State Board of Administration; reporting requirements.
                    
                        215.472
                        
                    Prohibited investments.
                    
                        215.4725
                        
                    Prohibited investments by the State Board of Administration; companies that boycott Israel.
                    
                        215.473
                        
                    Divestiture by the State Board of Administration; Sudan; Iran.
                    
                        215.474
                        
                    Analyses of technology and growth investments.
                    
                        215.475
                        
                    Investment policy statement.
                    
                        215.4754
                        
                    Ethics requirements for investment advisers and managers and members of the Investment Advisory Council.
                    
                        215.4755
                        
                    Certification and disclosure requirements for investment advisers and managers.
                    
                        215.48
                        
                    Consent and ratification of appropriate board, agency, or of the judicial branch.
                    
                        215.49
                        
                    Making funds available for investment.
                    
                        215.50
                        
                    Custody of securities purchased; income.
                    
                        215.51
                        
                    Investment accounts; changes, notice, etc.
                    
                        215.515
                        
                    Investment accounts; charges for services.
                    
                        215.52
                        
                    Rules and regulations.
                    
                        215.53
                        
                    Powers of existing officers and boards, the judicial branch, and agencies not affected.
                    
                        215.55
                        
                    Federal Use of State Lands Trust Fund; county distribution.
                    
                        215.551
                        
                    Federal Use of State Lands Trust Fund; county distribution; requests by counties.
                    
                        215.552
                        
                    Federal Use of State Lands Trust Fund; land within military installations; county distribution.
                    
                        215.555
                        
                    Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund.
                    
                        215.556
                        
                    Exemption.
                    
                        215.557
                        
                    Reports of insured values.
                    
                        215.5586
                        
                    My Safe Florida Home Program.
                    
                        215.5588
                        
                    Florida Disaster Recovery Program.
                    
                        215.559
                        
                    Hurricane Loss Mitigation Program.
                    
                        215.5595
                        
                    Insurance Capital Build-Up Incentive Program.
                    
                        215.55952
                        
                    Annual report on economic impact of a 1-in-100-year hurricane.
                    
                        215.56005
                        
                    Tobacco Settlement Financing Corporation.
                    
                        215.5601
                        
                    Lawton Chiles Endowment Fund.
                    
                        215.5602
                        
                    James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program.
                    
                        215.56021
                        
                    Exemptions from public records and public meetings requirements; peer review panels.
                    
                        215.57
                        
                    Short title.
                    
                        215.58
                        
                    Definitions relating to State Bond Act.
                    
                        215.59
                        
                    State bonds, revenue bonds; issuance.
                    
                        215.60
                        
                    State bonds for financing road acquisition and construction.
                    
                        215.605
                        
                    State bonds for right-of-way acquisition or bridge construction.
                    
                        215.61
                        
                    State system of public education capital outlay bonds.
                    
                        215.615
                        
                    Fixed-guideway transportation systems funding.
                    
                        215.616
                        
                    State bonds for federal aid highway construction.
                    
                        215.617
                        
                    Bonds for state-funded infrastructure bank.
                    
                        215.618
                        
                    Bonds for acquisition and improvement of land, water areas, and related property interests and resources.
                    
                        215.619
                        
                    Bonds for Everglades restoration.
                    
                        215.62
                        
                    Division of Bond Finance.
                    
                        215.63
                        
                    Transfer to division of assets and liabilities of the Revenue Bond Department of Development Commission.
                    
                        215.64
                        
                    Powers of the division.
                    
                        215.65
                        
                    Bond Fee Trust Fund, expenditures; schedule of fees.
                    
                        215.655
                        
                    Arbitrage Compliance Program, expenditures; schedule of fees.
                    
                        215.66
                        
                    Request for issuance of bonds; procedure requirements.
                    
                        215.67
                        
                    Issuance of state bonds.
                    
                        215.68
                        
                    Issuance of bonds; form; maturity date, execution, sale.
                    
                        215.684
                        
                    Limitation on engaging services of securities broker or bond underwriter convicted of fraud.
                    
                        215.69
                        
                    State Board of Administration to administer funds.
                    
                        215.70
                        
                    State Board of Administration to act in case of defaults.
                    
                        215.71
                        
                    Application of bond proceeds.
                    
                        215.72
                        
                    Covenants with bondholders.
                    
                        215.73
                        
                    Approval of bond issue by State Board of Administration.
                    
                        215.74
                        
                    Pledge of constitutional fuel tax; consent by counties and state agency supervising state road system.
                    
                        215.75
                        
                    Bonds securities for public bodies.
                    
                        215.76
                        
                    Exemption of bonds from taxation.
                    
                        215.77
                        
                    Trust funds.
                    
                        215.78
                        
                    Remedies.
                    
                        215.79
                        
                    Refunding bonds.
                    
                        215.80
                        
                    Annual report.
                    
                        215.81
                        
                    Pledge of state.
                    
                        215.82
                        
                    Validation; when required.
                    
                        215.821
                        
                    Issuance of bonds by state agencies.
                    
                        215.83
                        
                    Construction of State Bond Act.
                    
                        215.835
                        
                    Rulemaking authority.
                    
                        215.84
                        
                    Government bonds; maximum rate of interest.
                    
                        215.845
                        
                    Certain special laws establishing interest rates on bonds prohibited.
                    
                        215.85
                        
                    Direct deposit of public funds.
                    
                        215.86
                        
                    Management systems and controls.
                    
                        215.89
                        
                    Charts of account.
                    
                        215.90
                        
                    Short title.
                    
                        215.91
                        
                    Florida Financial Management Information System; board; council.
                    
                        215.92
                        
                    Definitions relating to Florida Financial Management Information System Act.
                    
                        215.93
                        
                    Florida Financial Management Information System.
                    
                        215.94
                        
                    Designation, duties, and responsibilities of functional owners.
                    
                        215.95
                        
                    Financial Management Information Board.
                    
                        215.96
                        
                    Coordinating council and design and coordination staff.
                    
                        215.962
                        
                    Standards for state agency use of card-based technology.
                    
                        215.964
                        
                    Process for acquisition of commodities or services that include the use of card-based technology.
                    
                        215.965
                        
                    Disbursement of state moneys.
                    
                        215.966
                        
                    Refinancing of bonds.
                    
                        215.97
                        
                    Florida Single Audit Act.
                    
                        215.971
                        
                    Agreements funded with federal or state assistance.
                    
                        215.98
                        
                    State debt fiscal responsibility.
                    
                        215.981
                        
                    Audits of state agency direct-support organizations and citizen support organizations.
                    
                        215.985
                        
            Transparency in government spending.