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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 2002

    Amendment No. 1

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11  The Committee on Comprehensive Planning, Local and Military

12  Affairs recommended the following amendment:

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 4, lines 8-22, delete those lines

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18         5.a.  Each of the following governmental entities must

19  have an annual financial audit of its accounts and records

20  completed within 12 months after the end of its fiscal year by

21  an independent certified public accountant retained by it and

22  paid from its public funds:

23         (I)  Any municipality with revenues or expenditures in

24  excess of $250,000;

25         (II)  Any special district with revenues or

26  expenditures in excess of $50,000;

27         (III)  Each county;

28         (IV)  Each district school board; and

29         (V)  Any municipality with revenues or expenditures

30  between $100,000 and $250,000 that has not had a financial

31  audit pursuant to this subparagraph within the last three

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 1  years.

 2         b.  Each local governmental entity that is not required

 3  to have an audit pursuant to this subparagraph must submit a

 4  copy of its financial statements prepared pursuant to s.

 5  218.321 to the Auditor General within 12 months after the end

 6  of its fiscal year. Any local governmental entity that fails

 7  to submit its financial statements in accordance with this

 8  subparagraph is subject to the penalty provisions prescribed

 9  in subparagraph 11. If by July 1 in any fiscal year a district

10  school board or local governmental entity has not been

11  notified that a financial audit for that fiscal year will be

12  performed by the Auditor General pursuant to subparagraph 3.,

13  each municipality with either revenues or expenditures of more

14  than $100,000, each special district with either revenues or

15  expenditures of more than $50,000, and each county agency

16  shall, and each district school board may, require that an

17  annual financial audit of its accounts and records be

18  completed, within 12 months after the end of its respective

19  fiscal year, by an independent certified public accountant

20  retained by it and paid from its public funds.

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24  And the title is amended as follows:

25         On page 1, lines 5 through 10, delete those lines

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28         a municipality is required to have an annual

29         financial audit of its accounts and records

30         conducted by an independent certified public

31         accountant; requiring certain municipalities to

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 1         have financial audits; requiring local

 2         governmental entities not subject to an audit

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 4         General; subjecting local governmental entities

 5         to penalties for failure to submit their

 6         financial statements to the Auditor General;

 7         amending ss. 218.32,

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