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Senate Bill 0326
    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 326

    By Senator Ostalkiewicz





    12-167-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Revenue Estimating

  3         Conference; amending s. 216.136, F.S.;

  4         prescribing duties of the conference with

  5         respect to notice, recording meetings and

  6         sessions, and receiving public comment;

  7         requiring certain documentation relating to the

  8         performance of the conference's duties;

  9         providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Subsection (3) of section 216.136, Florida

14  Statutes is amended to read:

15         216.136  Consensus estimating conferences; duties and

16  principals.--

17         (3)  REVENUE ESTIMATING CONFERENCE.--

18         (a)  Duties.--The Revenue Estimating Conference shall

19  develop such official information with respect to anticipated

20  state and local government revenues as the conference

21  determines is needed for the state planning and budgeting

22  system.  Any principal may request the conference to review

23  and estimate revenues for any trust fund.

24         (b)  Principals.--The Executive Office of the Governor,

25  the director of the Division of Economic and Demographic

26  Research of the Joint Legislative Management Committee, and

27  professional staff of the Senate and House of Representatives

28  who have forecasting expertise, or their designees, are the

29  principals of the Revenue Estimating Conference.  The

30  responsibility of presiding over sessions of the conference

31  shall be rotated among the principals.

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    Florida Senate - 1998                                   SB 326
    12-167-98




  1         (c)  Sessions and meetings; records; reports.--All

  2  sessions and meetings of the Revenue Estimating Conference

  3  shall be properly noticed, open to the public, and promptly

  4  recorded as provided in chapter 286. The Revenue Estimating

  5  Conference shall prepare an agenda in the time and manner

  6  prescribed for notice of legislative committee meetings and

  7  shall provide for public comment as to the issues set forth in

  8  that agenda. When the Revenue Estimating Conference attributes

  9  a fiscal impact to proposed legislation or amendments thereto,

10  the conference shall prepare a written explanation that

11  describes the methodology used and all assumptions upon which

12  the attribution was based, including the conference's

13  assumptions with respect to the state of the existing law and

14  the effect of the proposed changes to it.

15         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1998.

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18                          SENATE SUMMARY

19    Requires the Revenue Estimating Conference to give notice
      of its meetings and sessions, to record its meetings and
20    sessions, to prepare an agenda, and to provide for public
      comment as to issues included on the agenda.  Requires
21    the conference to prepare a written explanation,
      describing methodology and assumptions used, when it
22    attributes a fiscal impact to proposed legislation or
      amendments to it.
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