Florida Senate - 2023                                     SB 774
       
       
        
       By Senator Brodeur
       
       
       
       
       
       10-00321-23                                            2023774__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to financial disclosures for local
    3         officers; amending s. 112.3144, F.S.; requiring
    4         specified local officers to file a full and public
    5         disclosure of financial interests; amending s.
    6         112.3145, F.S.; revising the definition of the term
    7         “local officer”; providing an effective date.
    8          
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   10  
   11         Section 1. Paragraph (d) is added to subsection (1) of
   12  section 112.3144, Florida Statutes, to read:
   13         112.3144 Full and public disclosure of financial
   14  interests.—
   15         (1)
   16         (d) The following local officers must comply with the
   17  financial disclosure requirements of s. 8, Art. II of the State
   18  Constitution and this section:
   19         1. Mayors.
   20         2. City commissioners.
   21         3. Elected members of a city council; town council; village
   22  council; or other governing body of a city, town, or village.
   23         4. City, county, town, or village managers.
   24         Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
   25  112.3145, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   26         112.3145 Disclosure of financial interests and clients
   27  represented before agencies.—
   28         (1) For purposes of this section, unless the context
   29  otherwise requires, the term:
   30         (a) “Local officer” means:
   31         1. Every person who is elected to office in any political
   32  subdivision of the state, and every person who is appointed to
   33  fill a vacancy for an unexpired term in such an elective office.
   34  The term “local officer” does not include mayors; city
   35  commissioners; elected members of a city council, town council,
   36  or village council, or any other governing body of a city, town,
   37  or village; or city, county, town, or village managers.
   38         2. Any appointed member of any of the following boards,
   39  councils, commissions, authorities, or other bodies of any
   40  county, municipality, school district, independent special
   41  district, or other political subdivision of the state:
   42         a. The governing body of the political subdivision, if
   43  appointed;
   44         b. A community college or junior college district board of
   45  trustees;
   46         c. A board having the power to enforce local code
   47  provisions;
   48         d. A planning or zoning board, board of adjustment, board
   49  of appeals, community redevelopment agency board, or other board
   50  having the power to recommend, create, or modify land planning
   51  or zoning within the political subdivision, except for citizen
   52  advisory committees, technical coordinating committees, and such
   53  other groups who only have the power to make recommendations to
   54  planning or zoning boards;
   55         e. A pension board or retirement board having the power to
   56  invest pension or retirement funds or the power to make a
   57  binding determination of one’s entitlement to or amount of a
   58  pension or other retirement benefit; or
   59         f. Any other appointed member of a local government board
   60  who is required to file a statement of financial interests by
   61  the appointing authority or the enabling legislation, ordinance,
   62  or resolution creating the board.
   63         3. Any person holding one or more of the following
   64  positions: mayor; county or city manager; chief administrative
   65  employee of a county, municipality, or other political
   66  subdivision; county or municipal attorney; finance director of a
   67  county, municipality, or other political subdivision; chief
   68  county or municipal building code inspector; county or municipal
   69  water resources coordinator; county or municipal pollution
   70  control director; county or municipal environmental control
   71  director; county or municipal administrator, with power to grant
   72  or deny a land development permit; chief of police; fire chief;
   73  municipal clerk; district school superintendent; community
   74  college president; district medical examiner; or purchasing
   75  agent having the authority to make any purchase exceeding the
   76  threshold amount provided for in s. 287.017 for CATEGORY TWO, on
   77  behalf of any political subdivision of the state or any entity
   78  thereof.
   79         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.