Florida Senate - 2024                                    SB 1326
       
       
        
       By Senator DiCeglie
       
       
       
       
       
       18-01358-24                                           20241326__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to review of agency rules; amending s.
    3         120.545, F.S.; requiring each state agency to annually
    4         compile a specified report, by a specified date;
    5         requiring the Administrative Procedures Committee to
    6         advise and assist state agencies with specified
    7         actions; requiring the staff director of the committee
    8         to prepare a certain report annually, by a specified
    9         date, and to publish such report on the committee’s
   10         website and submit such report to the Legislature;
   11         providing an effective date.
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   13  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   15         Section 1. Subsection (9) is added to section 120.545,
   16  Florida Statutes, to read:
   17         120.545 Committee review of agency rules.—
   18         (9)(a) By October 1, 2024, and each October 1 thereafter,
   19  each state agency and each board under a state agency shall
   20  compile a report that includes an inventory of all rules adopted
   21  by such agency or board and all of the following information:
   22         1. The total number of rules currently in effect under the
   23  jurisdiction of the agency or the board.
   24         2. The number of rules adopted by the agency or board in
   25  the preceding year.
   26         3. The number of rules withdrawn by the agency or board in
   27  the preceding year.
   28         4. A regulatory review exercise proposing reductions in
   29  rules by 10 percent, 20 percent, and 30 percent of the total
   30  rules currently in effect for the agency or board.
   31         (b) The committee shall advise and assist state agencies in
   32  preparing base and revised inventories of rules and shall advise
   33  and assist agencies in achieving the specified percentage
   34  reduction in rules in the Florida Administrative Code, including
   35  exercises of proposed reductions of rule inventory by 10
   36  percent, 20 percent, and 30 percent.
   37         (c) Beginning December 1, 2024, and each December 1
   38  thereafter, the staff director of the committee shall prepare a
   39  historical report aggregating the reports received from state
   40  agencies for the preceding year. In the report, the staff
   41  director shall describe the work of the committee over the
   42  preceding year with respect to reduction of rules and shall
   43  indicate the percentage by which each state agency reduced its
   44  rules. The report must provide recommendations to the
   45  Legislature identifying those statutory changes brought to the
   46  committee’s attention as contributing to the adoption of
   47  regulatory restrictions. The staff director shall submit the
   48  report to the committee, which shall publish the report on its
   49  website and shall transmit copies of the report electronically
   50  to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
   51  Representatives.
   52         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.