Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT
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11 Senator Campbell moved the following amendment to amendment
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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19 112.3215 Lobbying Lobbyists before the executive
20 branch, county officers, or the Constitution Revision
21 Commission; registration and reporting; investigation by
22 commission.--
23 (1) For the purposes of this section:
24 (a) "Agency" means the Governor, Governor and Cabinet,
25 or any department, division, bureau, board, commission, or
26 authority of the executive branch. In addition, "agency" shall
27 mean a county official and the Constitution Revision
28 Commission as provided by s. 2, Art. XI of the State
29 Constitution.
30 (b) "Compensation" means a payment, distribution,
31 loan, advance, reimbursement, deposit, salary, fee, retainer,
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1 or anything of value provided or owed to a lobbying firm,
2 directly or indirectly, by a principal.
3 (c) "County officers" means a sheriff, a tax
4 collector, a property appraiser, a supervisor of elections, or
5 a clerk of the circuit court.
6 (d)(b) "Expenditure" means a payment, distribution,
7 loan, advance, reimbursement, deposit, or anything of value
8 made by a lobbyist or principal for the purpose of lobbying.
9 (e)(c) "Fund" means the Executive Branch Lobby
10 Registration Trust Fund.
11 (f)1.(d) "Lobbies" means seeking, on behalf of another
12 person, to influence an agency with respect to a decision of
13 the agency in the area of policy or procurement or an attempt
14 to obtain the goodwill of an agency official or employee.
15 "Lobbies" also means influencing or attempting to influence,
16 on behalf of another, the Constitution Revision Commission's
17 action or nonaction through oral or written communication or
18 an attempt to obtain the goodwill of a member or employee of
19 the Constitution Revision Commission.
20 2. Food and beverages paid for or provided, directly
21 or indirectly, by a lobbyist or principal to, or for the
22 benefit of, an agency official or employee or a member or
23 employee of the Constitution Revision Commission is deemed an
24 attempt to obtain such person's goodwill unless the lobbyist
25 or principal is the person's parent, spouse, child, or
26 sibling.
27 (g) "Lobbying firm" means a business entity, including
28 an individual contract lobbyist, which receives or becomes
29 entitled to receive any compensation for the purpose of
30 lobbying, if any partner, owner, officer, or employee of the
31 business entity is a lobbyist.
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1 (h)(e) "Lobbyist" means a person who is employed and
2 receives payment, or who contracts for economic consideration,
3 for the purpose of lobbying, or a person who is principally
4 employed for governmental affairs by another person or
5 governmental entity to lobby on behalf of that other person or
6 governmental entity. "Lobbyist" does not include a person who
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8 1. An attorney, or any person, who represents a client
9 in a judicial proceeding or in a formal administrative
10 proceeding conducted pursuant to chapter 120 or any other
11 formal hearing before an agency, board, commission, or
12 authority of this state.
13 2. An employee of an agency or of a legislative or
14 judicial branch entity acting in the normal course of his or
15 her duties.
16 3. A confidential informant who is providing, or
17 wishes to provide, confidential information to be used for law
18 enforcement purposes.
19 4. A person who lobbies to procure a contract pursuant
20 to chapter 287 which contract is less than the threshold for
21 CATEGORY ONE as provided in s. 287.017(1)(a).
22 (i)(f) "Principal" means the person, firm,
23 corporation, or other entity that which has employed or
24 retained a lobbyist.
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28 And the title is amended as follows:
29 On page 40, line 20, delete that line
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