Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 696
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Hutson) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    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.