Florida Senate - 2016                                    SB 1672
       
       
        
       By Senator Evers
       
       2-01446A-16                                           20161672__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to compensation of employees of
    3         nongovernmental organizations, quasi-governmental
    4         entities, and not-for-profit organizations; providing
    5         a limitation on the salaries of employees of certain
    6         nongovernmental organizations, quasi-governmental
    7         entities, and not-for-profit organizations; requiring
    8         approval by the Legislative Budget Commission for
    9         salaries that exceed the limitation; providing
   10         requirements relating to the use of appropriated funds
   11         for administrative costs, including salaries;
   12         providing that certain organizations and entities are
   13         ineligible for state-appropriated funds, including
   14         state-appropriated federal funds, under certain
   15         conditions; providing an effective date.
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   17  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   19         Section 1. (1) An employee of a nongovernmental
   20  organization, quasi-governmental entity, or not-for-profit
   21  organization that receives a portion of its budget from state
   22  appropriated funds, including state-appropriated federal funds,
   23  may not receive a salary, whether base pay or base pay combined
   24  with any benefit or bonus or incentive payments, in excess of
   25  the salary paid to the highest paid secretary, department
   26  director, or supervisor of a comparable state agency who
   27  directly supervises a similar number of employees according to
   28  his or her job description as established in the General
   29  Appropriations Act, unless that organization or entity receives
   30  approval for a higher salary from the Legislative Budget
   31  Commission. For purposes of this section, the term “comparable
   32  state agency” means a state agency that has a purpose similar to
   33  that of a nongovernmental organization, quasi-governmental
   34  entity, or not-for-profit organization and does not include the
   35  Executive Office of the Governor, an office within the Executive
   36  Office of the Governor, the office of any Cabinet member, any
   37  court, the office of the Speaker of the House of
   38  Representatives, or the office of the President of the Senate.
   39         (2) A nongovernmental organization, quasi-governmental
   40  entity, or not-for-profit organization that receives a portion
   41  of its budget from state-appropriated funds, including state
   42  appropriated federal funds, may use only 15 percent or less of
   43  the appropriated funds for administrative costs, including
   44  salaries.
   45         (3) A nongovernmental organization, quasi-governmental
   46  entity, or not-for-profit organization that accumulates $5
   47  million dollars in total reserves is ineligible for state
   48  appropriated funds, including state-appropriated federal funds,
   49  until the organization’s or entity’s accumulated reserve funding
   50  is less than $2 million.
   51         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2016.