| 1 | Representative Gannon offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment to Amendment (521969) (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 406 and 407, insert: |
| 5 | Section 3. Subsection (1) of section 11.062, Florida |
| 6 | Statutes, is amended, current subsection (2) is redesignated as |
| 7 | subsection (3), and a new subsection (2) is added to said |
| 8 | section, to read: |
| 9 | 11.062 Use of public state funds for lobbying prohibited; |
| 10 | penalty.-- |
| 11 | (1) No funds, exclusive of salaries, travel expenses, and |
| 12 | per diem, appropriated to, or otherwise available for use by, |
| 13 | any executive, quasi-executive judicial, or quasi-judicial |
| 14 | department shall be used by any public state employee or other |
| 15 | person for lobbying purposes, which shall include the cost for |
| 16 | publication and distribution of each publication used in |
| 17 | lobbying; other printing; media; advertising, including |
| 18 | production costs; postage; entertainment; and telephone and |
| 19 | telegraph. For purposes of this section, the term "quasi- |
| 20 | executive department" includes any entity that is created by |
| 21 | state law and funded primarily by state funds. Any public state |
| 22 | employee of any executive, judicial, or quasi-judicial |
| 23 | department who violates the provisions of this section shall |
| 24 | have deducted from her or his salary the amount of state moneys |
| 25 | spent in violation of this section. |
| 26 | (2) Any lobbyist for any public entity shall disclose to |
| 27 | the Commission on Ethics the dollar amount of the employment or |
| 28 | contract agreement in a statement issued to the commission no |
| 29 | later than July 1 of each year. |
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| 32 | Remove line 862 and insert: |
| 33 | for public access to certain data; amending s. 11.062, F.S.; |
| 34 | revising provisions relating to the use of state funds for |
| 35 | lobbying; requiring lobbyists to disclose certain information to |
| 36 | the Commission on Ethics; providing a definition; amending s. |
| 37 | 112.3215, |