Florida Senate - 2011                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
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       Senator Fasano moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 5051 and 5052
    4  insert:
    5         Section 61. Paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subsection (2)
    6  of section 11.062, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         11.062 Use of state funds for lobbying prohibited;
    8  penalty.—
    9         (2)(a) A department of the executive branch, a state
   10  university, a community college, or a water management district,
   11  or a public hospital may not use public funds to retain a
   12  lobbyist to represent it before the legislative or executive
   13  branch. However, full-time employees of a department of the
   14  executive branch, a state university, a community college, or a
   15  water management district, or a public hospital may register as
   16  lobbyists and represent that employer before the legislative or
   17  executive branch. Except as a full-time employee, a person may
   18  not accept any public funds from a department of the executive
   19  branch, a state university, a community college, or a water
   20  management district, or a public hospital for lobbying.
   21         (b) A department of the executive branch, a state
   22  university, a community college, or a water management district,
   23  or a public hospital that violates this subsection may be
   24  prohibited from lobbying the legislative or executive branch for
   25  a period not exceeding 2 years.
   26         (c) This subsection does shall not be construed to prohibit
   27  a department of the executive branch, a state university, a
   28  community college, or a water management district, or a public
   29  hospital from retaining a lobbyist for purposes of representing
   30  the entity before the executive or legislative branch of the
   31  Federal Government. Further, any person so retained is not
   32  subject to the prohibitions of this subsection.
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   34  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   35         And the title is amended as follows:
   36         Delete line 284
   37  and insert:
   38         fiscal intermediary services; amending s. 11.062,
   39         F.S.; including public hospitals among those entities
   40         prohibited from using public funds to retain a
   41         lobbyist to represent public hospitals before the
   42         state legislative or executive branches; amending s.
   43         39.407,