Senate Bill 0228
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Florida Senate - 1999 SB 228
By Senator Webster
12-505-99 See HB
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to state finances; amending s.
3 186.021, F.S.; requiring each state agency
4 strategic plan to include a summary of all
5 moneys that were spent by or otherwise passed
6 through the agency during the preceding fiscal
7 year and an estimate of such spending and
8 handling for the current fiscal year; providing
9 requirements for the reporting of such
10 information; providing for a reduction in
11 funding for failure to submit the summary with
12 the state agency strategic plan as required;
13 requiring the Florida Financial Management
14 Information System Coordinating Council to
15 submit to the Governor and Legislature a report
16 with recommendations relating to the reporting
17 of such information; providing an effective
18 date.
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20 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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22 Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 186.021, Florida
23 Statutes, is amended to read:
24 186.021 State agency strategic plans.--
25 (2) A state agency strategic plan shall be developed
26 with a 5-year outlook and shall provide the strategic
27 framework within which an agency's legislative budget request
28 is developed. An agency's budget shall be designed to further
29 the agency's strategic plan. Each state agency strategic plan
30 must include a summary of all moneys that were spent by or
31 otherwise passed through the agency during the preceding
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1 fiscal year and an estimate of the moneys projected to be
2 spent by or otherwise pass through the agency for the current
3 fiscal year. All such spending and handling and estimates of
4 such spending and handling must be divided into major product
5 and service categories and further expressed in unit costs,
6 and the unit-cost totals must equal the total amount of moneys
7 that were spent by or otherwise passed through the agency or
8 that were projected to be spent by or otherwise pass through
9 the agency, as applicable. At the regular session immediately
10 following the submission of the agency strategic plan pursuant
11 to s. 186.022(1), the Legislature shall reduce in the General
12 Appropriations Act for the ensuing fiscal year, by an amount
13 equal to at least 10 percent of the allocation for the fiscal
14 year preceding the current fiscal year, the funding of each
15 state agency that fails to include the summary required by
16 this subsection with the agency strategic plan submitted under
17 s. 186.022(1). All summaries must be submitted in the form and
18 manner prescribed by the instructions prepared pursuant to s.
19 186.022(2).
20 Section 2. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 186.022,
21 Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, read:
22 186.022 State agency strategic plans; preparation,
23 form, and review.--
24 (1) Beginning in 1992, 3 months prior to the annual
25 submission of its final agency legislative budget request
26 pursuant to s. 216.023(1), each state agency shall prepare and
27 submit its agency strategic plan to the Executive Office of
28 the Governor. Prior to the submission of its agency strategic
29 plan to the Governor, each agency shall hold public workshops
30 on the proposed agency strategic plan, and shall allow at
31 least a 21-day period for public comment. At a minimum,
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1 adequate public notice must be assured by publication of
2 notice of the hearing and comment period in the Florida
3 Administrative Weekly. Public participation must be further
4 encouraged through procedures and instructions.
5 (2) Each agency strategic plan must be in a form and
6 manner prescribed in written instructions prepared by the
7 Executive Office of the Governor after consultation with the
8 President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
9 Representatives. Each agency strategic plan must identify the
10 specific legislative authority necessary to implement the
11 provisions of the plan. An agency may only implement those
12 portions of its strategic plan that are consistent with
13 existing statutory or constitutional authority and for which
14 funding, if needed, is available consistent with the
15 provisions of chapter 216. An agency's budget request
16 prescribed in s. 216.023(1) shall identify the financial
17 resources necessary to further the provisions of the agency's
18 strategic plan. Performance measures, as defined in s. 216.011
19 and proposed by the agency pursuant to s. 216.0166(1), must be
20 consistent with the objectives in the draft agency strategic
21 plan and shall represent 1-year implementation efforts
22 necessary to meet the 5-year agency strategic plan objectives.
23 State agency strategic plans shall be amended by the agency,
24 as necessary, to ensure consistency with the legislative
25 actions prior to the effective date of the agency strategic
26 plan.
27 Section 3. The Florida Financial Management
28 Information System Coordinating Council shall submit to the
29 Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the
30 House of Representatives by October 1, 1999, a report, with
31 recommendations, on the necessity and feasibility of, and the
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1 costs associated with, enhancements to the Florida Accounting
2 Information Resource Subsystem required to support state
3 agencies in providing the unit-cost information required to be
4 reported under section 186.021(2), Florida Statutes, as
5 amended by this act.
6 Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1 of the
7 year in which enacted.
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10 LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY
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Requires each state agency strategic plan to include a
12 summary of all moneys that were spent by or otherwise
passed through the agency during the preceding fiscal
13 year and an estimate of such spending and handling for
the current fiscal year, and provides requirements for
14 the reporting of such information. Provides for a
reduction in funding for failure to submit the summary
15 with the state agency strategic plan as required.
Requires the Florida Financial Management Information
16 System Coordinating Council to submit to the Governor and
Legislature a report with recommendations relating to the
17 reporting of such information. (See bill for details.)
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