Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1114
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/17/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Bradley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 617.221, Florida Statutes, is created to
    6  read:
    7         617.221 Membership associations that receive public funds;
    8  reporting requirements; restriction on use of funds.—
    9         (1) As used in this section, the term “membership
   10  association” means a corporation not for profit, including a
   11  department or division of such corporation, whose membership
   12  includes a majority of elected or appointed public officers, as
   13  defined in s. 112.313(1), and which receives 25 percent or more
   14  of its annual revenue from public funds, as defined in s.
   15  215.85(3). The term does not include a labor organization as
   16  defined in s. 447.02.
   17         (2) A membership association shall file a report with the
   18  President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
   19  Representatives by January 1 of each year. The report must
   20  include:
   21         (a) The name and address of the membership association and
   22  any parent membership association or any state, national, or
   23  international membership association affiliate.
   24         (b) The names, titles, telephone numbers, and addresses of
   25  the principal officers and all representatives of the membership
   26  association.
   27         (c) The fee required to become a member of the membership
   28  association, if any, and the annual dues that each member must
   29  pay.
   30         (d) The latest annual financial statements of the
   31  membership association as described in s. 617.1605.
   32         (e) A copy of the current constitution and bylaws of the
   33  membership association.
   34         (f) The assets and liabilities of the membership
   35  association at the beginning and end of the preceding fiscal
   36  year.
   37         (g) The salary, allowances, and other direct or indirect
   38  disbursements, including reimbursed expenses, to each officer
   39  and to each employee who, during the preceding fiscal year,
   40  received more than $10,000 total from the membership association
   41  and any other state, national, or international membership
   42  association affiliate.
   43         (h) The annual dollar amount of the following benefit
   44  packages paid to each of the principal officers of the
   45  membership association:
   46         1. Health, major medical, vision, dental, and life
   47  insurance.
   48         2. Retirement plans.
   49         3. Automobile allowances.
   50         (i) The amount of annual dues for each member sent from the
   51  membership association to each state, national, or international
   52  affiliate.
   53         (j) The total amount of direct or indirect disbursements
   54  for lobbying activity at the federal, state, or local level
   55  incurred by the membership association, listed by the full name
   56  and address of each person who received a disbursement.
   57         (k) The total amount of direct or indirect disbursements
   58  for litigation expenses incurred by the membership association,
   59  listed by case citation.
   60         (3) A membership association may not expend moneys received
   61  from public funds on litigation against the state.
   62         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.
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   64  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   65  And the title is amended as follows:
   66         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   67  and insert:
   68                        A bill to be entitled                      
   69         An act relating to membership associations that
   70         receive public funds; creating s. 617.221, F.S.;
   71         defining the term “membership association”; requiring
   72         a membership association that receives a specified
   73         percentage of its budget from public funds to file an
   74         annual report with the Legislature; requiring that
   75         such a report provide specified information;
   76         prohibiting a membership association from expending
   77         public funds on litigation against the state;
   78         providing an effective date.