Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (560970) for CS for SB 1304
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/15/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Hays) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 62 - 102
    4  and insert:
    5  executive director of the Office of Early Learning, and the
    6  Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court.
    7         (b) “Entities contracting with the state” means for-profit
    8  and not-for-profit organizations or businesses that have a legal
    9  existence, such as corporations or partnerships, as opposed to
   10  natural persons, which have entered into a relationship with a
   11  state agency to provide for consideration certain goods or
   12  services to the state agency or on behalf of the state agency.
   13  The relationship may be evidenced by payment by warrant or
   14  purchasing card, contract, purchase order, provider agreement,
   15  or other such mutually agreed upon relationship. The term does
   16  not apply to entities that are the subject of audits or
   17  investigations conducted pursuant to ss. 112.3187-112.31895 or
   18  s. 409.913 or which are otherwise confidential and exempt under
   19  s. 119.07.
   20         (c) “Individuals substantially affected” means natural
   21  persons who have established a real and sufficiently immediate
   22  injury in fact due to the findings, conclusions, or
   23  recommendations of a final report of a state agency inspector
   24  general, who are the subject of the audit or investigation, and
   25  who do not have or are not currently afforded an existing right
   26  to an independent review process. The term does not apply to
   27  employees of the state, including career service, probationary,
   28  other personal service, Selected Exempt Service, and Senior
   29  Management Service employees; former employees of the state if
   30  the final report of the state agency inspector general relates
   31  to matters arising during a former employee’s term of state
   32  employment; or persons who are the subject of audits or
   33  investigations conducted pursuant to ss. 112.3187-112.31895 or
   34  s. 409.913 or which are otherwise confidential and exempt under
   35  s. 119.07.
   36         (d) “State agency” means each department created pursuant
   37  to this chapter and the Executive Office of the Governor, the
   38  Department of Military Affairs, the Fish and Wildlife
   39  Conservation Commission, the Office of Insurance Regulation of
   40  the Financial Services Commission, the Office of Financial
   41  Regulation of the Financial Services Commission, the Public
   42  Service Commission, the Board of Governors of the State
   43  University System, the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, the
   44  Agency for State Technology,
   45  
   46  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   47  And the title is amended as follows:
   48         Delete lines 8 - 9
   49  and insert:
   50         agency” to include the Office of Early Learning of the
   51         Department of