Senate Bill sb0684

    Florida Senate - 2006                                   SB 684

    By Senator Bennett





    21-638-06

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to state travel expenses;

  3         amending s. 112.061, F.S.; prescribing the rate

  4         for calculating mileage reimbursement when

  5         privately owned vehicles are used for official

  6         travel by state employees and public officers;

  7         providing an effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (d) of subsection (7) of section

12  112.061, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         112.061  Per diem and travel expenses of public

14  officers, employees, and authorized persons.--

15         (7)  TRANSPORTATION.--

16         (d)1.  The use of privately owned vehicles for official

17  travel in lieu of publicly owned vehicles or common carriers

18  may be authorized by the agency head or his or her designee.

19  Whenever travel is by privately owned vehicle, the traveler is

20  shall be entitled to a mileage allowance equal to the business

21  standard mileage rate set by the United States Internal

22  Revenue Service for the calendar year in which the official

23  travel occurs at a fixed rate of 25 cents per mile for state

24  fiscal year 1994-1995 and 29 cents per mile thereafter or the

25  common carrier fare for such travel, as determined by the

26  agency head. Reimbursement for expenditures related to the

27  operation, maintenance, and ownership of a vehicle is shall

28  not be allowed when privately owned vehicles are used on

29  public business and reimbursement is made under pursuant to

30  this paragraph, except as provided in subsection (8).

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    Florida Senate - 2006                                   SB 684
    21-638-06




 1         2.  All mileage shall be shown from point of origin to

 2  point of destination and, when possible, shall be computed on

 3  the basis of the current map of the Department of

 4  Transportation. Vicinity mileage necessary for the conduct of

 5  official business is allowable but must be shown as a separate

 6  item on the expense voucher.

 7         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2006.

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      when privately owned vehicles are used for official
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