Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 846
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/18/2014           .                                
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       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 127 - 152
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 2. Section 112.3142, Florida Statutes, is amended
    6  to read:
    7         112.3142 Ethics training for specified constitutional
    8  officers and elected municipal officers.—
    9         (1) As used in this section, the term “constitutional
   10  officers” includes the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the
   11  Attorney General, the Chief Financial Officer, the Commissioner
   12  of Agriculture, state attorneys, public defenders, sheriffs, tax
   13  collectors, property appraisers, supervisors of elections,
   14  clerks of the circuit court, county commissioners, district
   15  school board members, and superintendents of schools.
   16         (2)(a) All constitutional officers must complete 4 hours of
   17  ethics training each calendar year which annually that
   18  addresses, at a minimum, s. 8, Art. II of the State
   19  Constitution, the Code of Ethics for Public Officers and
   20  Employees, and the public records and public meetings laws of
   21  this state. This requirement may be satisfied by completion of a
   22  continuing legal education class or other continuing
   23  professional education class, seminar, or presentation if the
   24  required subjects are covered.
   25         (b) Beginning January 1, 2015, all elected municipal
   26  officers must complete 4 hours of ethics training each calendar
   27  year which addresses, at a minimum, s. 8, Art. II of the State
   28  Constitution, the Code of Ethics for Public Officers and
   29  Employees, and the public records and public meetings laws of
   30  this state. This requirement may be satisfied by completion of a
   31  continuing legal education class or other continuing
   32  professional education class, seminar, or presentation if the
   33  required subjects are covered.
   34         (c)(b) The commission shall adopt rules establishing
   35  minimum course content for the portion of an ethics training
   36  class which that addresses s. 8, Art. II of the State
   37  Constitution and the Code of Ethics for Public Officers and
   38  Employees.
   39         (d) The Legislature intends that a constitutional officer
   40  or elected municipal officer who is required to complete ethics
   41  training pursuant to this section receive the required training
   42  as close as possible to the date that he or she assumes office.
   43  A constitutional officer or elected municipal officer assuming a
   44  new office or new term of office on or before March 31 must
   45  complete the annual training on or before December 31 of the
   46  year in which the term of office began. A constitutional officer
   47  or elected municipal officer assuming a new office after March
   48  31 is not required to complete ethics training for the calendar
   49  year in which he or she assumes the new office.
   50         (3) Each house of the Legislature shall provide for ethics
   51  training pursuant to its rules.
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   54  And the title is amended as follows:
   55         Delete line 9
   56  and insert:
   57         training; providing legislative intent; amending s.
   58         112.3144, F.S.; requiring an