Senate Bill sb1950

    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1950

    By Senator Posey





    24-1528-05

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to regulating legislative

  3         lobbying; amending s. 11.045, F.S.; providing

  4         that it is a conflict of interest for a person

  5         registered to lobby the Legislature to serve on

  6         a governing or advisory body of an entity that

  7         receives state funds if the person's position

  8         on the body is subject to gubernatorial or

  9         legislative appointment; providing penalties;

10         providing an effective date.

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

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14         Section 1.  Subsection (7) of section 11.045, Florida

15  Statutes, is amended, and subsection (9) is added to that

16  section, to read:

17         11.045  Lobbyists; registration and reporting;

18  exemptions; penalties.--

19         (7)  Any person required to be registered or to provide

20  information pursuant to this section or pursuant to rules

21  established in conformity with this section who knowingly

22  fails to disclose any material fact required by this section

23  or by rules established in conformity with this section, or

24  who knowingly provides false information on any report

25  required by this section or by rules established in conformity

26  with this section, or who knowingly violates subsection (9)

27  commits a noncriminal infraction, punishable by a fine not to

28  exceed $5,000. Such penalty shall be in addition to any other

29  penalty assessed by a house of the Legislature pursuant to

30  subsection (6).

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    Florida Senate - 2005                                  SB 1950
    24-1528-05




 1         (9)  It is a conflict of interest for any person

 2  registered under this section to serve on the governing body

 3  of, or a body that is advisory to, any entity that directly or

 4  indirectly receives state funds if the person's position on

 5  that body depends upon gubernatorial or legislative

 6  appointment thereto.

 7         Section 2.  This act shall take effect on the first

 8  Wednesday after the first Tuesday in November 2008.

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12    Provides that it is a conflict of interest, subject to a
      fine as a noncriminal infraction, for a legislative
13    lobbyist to serve on the governing body or an advisory
      body of an entity that receives state funds if the
14    person's position on the body is one subject to
      gubernatorial or legislative appointment.
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