Florida Senate - 2019 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 696
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: WD .
04/08/2019 .
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The Committee on Community Affairs (Hutson) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the enacting clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 1. Section 129.021, Florida Statutes, is amended to
6 read:
7 129.021 County officer budget information.—
8 (1) Notwithstanding any other provision provisions of law,
9 the budgets of all county officers, as submitted to the board of
10 county commissioners, must be in sufficient detail and contain
11 such information as the board of county commissioners may
12 require in furtherance of their powers and responsibilities
13 provided in ss. 125.01(1)(q), (r), and (v), and (6) and
14 129.01(2)(b).
15 (2) The tentative and final budgets of each constitutional
16 officer must be detailed and must provide:
17 (a) A separate line item for proposed expenditures for each
18 program, division, or unit within the office.
19 (b) An identification of existing and proposed reserves.
20 (c) A separate narrative explaining:
21 1. The budget priorities of the constitutional officer.
22 2. Each budget line item that is unchanged from the budget
23 for the prior fiscal year.
24 3. Each budget line item that is increased or decreased
25 from the budget for the prior fiscal year, with an explanation
26 for the increase or decrease.
27 (3) The tentative budget must be posted on the county’s
28 official website at least 2 days before the public hearing and
29 must be identified separately from the tentative budget of the
30 county as a whole to clearly demarcate the constitutional
31 officers’ budgets.
32 Section 2. Subsection (7) is added to section 195.087,
33 Florida Statutes, to read:
34 195.087 Property appraisers and tax collectors to submit
35 budgets to Department of Revenue.—
36 (7)(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
37 tentative and final budgets of each constitutional officer must
38 be detailed and must provide:
39 1. A separate line item for proposed expenditures for each
40 program, division, or unit within the office.
41 2. An identification of existing and proposed reserves.
42 3. A separate narrative explaining:
43 a. The budget priorities of the constitutional officer.
44 b. Each budget line item that is unchanged from the budget
45 for the prior fiscal year.
46 c. Each budget line item that is increased or decreased
47 from the budget for the prior fiscal year, with an explanation
48 for the increase or decrease.
49 (b) The tentative budget must be posted on the
50 constitutional officer’s official website at the same time the
51 tentative budget is submitted to the Department of Revenue. The
52 final budget must be posted on the constitutional officer’s
53 website and remain posted for the fiscal year of that budget.
54 Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
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56 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
57 And the title is amended as follows:
58 Delete everything before the enacting clause
59 and insert:
60 A bill to be entitled
61 An act relating to the budgets of county
62 constitutional officers; amending s. 129.021, F.S.;
63 providing criteria for submission of tentative and
64 final budgets by county constitutional officers;
65 requiring the tentative budget of a county
66 constitutional officer to be posted on the county’s
67 website; amending s. 195.087, F.S.; providing criteria
68 for submission of tentative and final budgets by the
69 property appraiser and tax collector; requiring the
70 tentative and final budgets to be posted on the
71 website of the property appraiser or tax collector;
72 providing an effective date.