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House Bill 0777




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                 HB 777

        By the Committee on Rules, Resolutions, & Ethics and
    Representatives Thrasher and Crady





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to regulation of lobbyists;

  3         amending s. 112.3215, F.S.; extending

  4         regulation of lobbying to lobbyists before the

  5         Constitution Revision Commission; providing an

  6         effective date.

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

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10         Section 1.  Paragraphs (a) and (d) of subsection (1)

11  and subsection (2) of section 112.3215, Florida Statutes, 1996

12  Supplement, are amended to read:

13         112.3215  Lobbyists before the Executive Branch or the

14  Constitution Revision Commission Executive branch lobbyists;

15  registration and reporting; investigation by commission.--

16         (1)  For the purposes of this section:

17         (a)  "Agency" means the Governor, Governor and Cabinet,

18  or any department, division, bureau, board, commission, or

19  authority of the executive branch. In addition, "agency" means

20  the Constitution Revision Commission as provided by s. 2, Art.

21  XI of the State Constitution.

22         (d)  "Lobbies" means seeking, on behalf of another

23  person, to influence an agency with respect to a decision of

24  the agency in the area of policy or procurement or an attempt

25  to obtain the goodwill of an agency official or employee.

26  "Lobbies" also means influencing or attempting to influence,

27  on behalf of another, the Constitution Revision Commission's

28  action or nonaction through oral or written communication or

29  an attempt to obtain the goodwill of a member or employee of

30  the Constitution Revision Commission.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                 HB 777

    175-133B-97






  1         (2)  The Executive Branch Lobby Registration Trust Fund

  2  is hereby created within the commission to be used for the

  3  purpose of funding any office established to administer the

  4  registration of lobbyists lobbying an agency of the executive

  5  branch, including the payment of salaries and other expenses.

  6  The trust fund is not subject to the service charge to General

  7  Revenue provisions of chapter 215.  All annual registration

  8  fees collected pursuant to this section shall be deposited

  9  into such fund.

10         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

11  law.

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14                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Extends the regulation of lobbying to those persons
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      Constitution Revision Commission.
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