The Florida Senate

¹216.065  Fiscal impact statements on actions affecting the budget.--In addition to the applicable requirements of chapter 120, before the Governor, or Governor and Cabinet as a body, performing any constitutional or statutory duty, or before any state agency or statutorily authorized entity takes any final action that will affect revenues, require a request for an increased or new appropriation in the following fiscal year, or transfer current year funds, it shall first provide the legislative appropriations committees with a fiscal impact statement that details the effects of such action on the budget. The fiscal impact statement must specify the estimated budget and revenue impacts for the current year and the 2 subsequent fiscal years at the same level of detail required to support a legislative budget request, including amounts by appropriation category and fund.

History.--s. 9, ch. 91-109; s. 19, ch. 2005-152; s. 8, ch. 2006-119.

¹Note.--Section 11, ch. 2006-119, provides that "[t]his act shall take effect upon the effective date of the amendment to the State Constitution contained in Senate Joint Resolution No. 2144 [passed at the 2005 Regular Session], or a similar constitutional amendment, relating to the state budgeting, planning, and appropriations processes." If ch. 2006-119 takes effect, s. 216.065, as amended by s. 8, ch. 2006-119, will read:

216.065  Fiscal impact statements on actions affecting the budget.--In addition to the applicable requirements of chapter 120, before the Governor, or Governor and Cabinet as a body, performing any constitutional or statutory duty, or before any state agency or statutorily authorized entity takes any final action that will affect revenues, require a request for an increased or new appropriation in the following 3 fiscal years, or transfer current year funds, it shall first provide the joint Legislative Budget Commission and the legislative appropriations committees with a fiscal impact statement that details the effects of such action on the budget. The fiscal impact statement must specify the estimated budget and revenue impacts for the current year and the 2 subsequent fiscal years at the same level of detail required to support a legislative budget request, including amounts by appropriation category and fund.