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