Senate Bill sb2516

    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 2516

    By Senator Storms





    10-1708B-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to state and local government

  3         spending; providing definitions; requiring the

  4         Department of State to create and manage a

  5         website disclosing certain spending by state

  6         and local governmental entities under certain

  7         contracts; providing for free access to the

  8         website; providing requirements concerning the

  9         content of the website; providing an exemption

10         for public records that are not subject to

11         disclosure; providing an effective date.

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

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15         Section 1.  Transparency of spending by state and local

16  government.--

17         (1)  As used in this section, the term:

18         (a)  "Contract" means a legally binding agreement

19  between a governmental entity and a person which requires the

20  entity to pay the person $5,000 or more. The term includes an

21  agreement that would require a total payment of $5,000 or more

22  if each term extension that the agreement authorizes were

23  instituted.

24         (b)  "Expenditure" means a payment that a governmental

25  entity makes to a person under a contract.

26         (c)  "Governmental entity" means a state agency, a

27  political subdivision, a corporation created by and acting on

28  behalf of a state agency or political subdivision, or a taxing

29  authority created by a state agency or political subdivision.

30         (d)  "Person" means a corporation, association,

31  partnership, limited liability company, limited liability

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 2516
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 1  partnership, sole proprietorship, or any other legal business

 2  entity, whether for profit or nonprofit. The term excludes an

 3  individual, an employee of a governmental entity, or an

 4  employee of the Federal Government.

 5         (2)  The Department of State shall create and manage a

 6  website that is searchable and that a person who has Internet

 7  access can use without paying a fee. The website must list,

 8  for each quarter of each calendar year, each expenditure made

 9  on or after July 1, 2007, by a governmental entity to a person

10  under a contract by:

11         (a)  Name of the governmental entity making the

12  expenditure;

13         (b)  Name of the person receiving the expenditure;

14         (c)  Date of the expenditure;

15         (d)  Amount of the expenditure; and

16         (e)  Purpose of the expenditure.

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18  The website also must state the name of each party to a

19  contract for which the website lists an expenditure and

20  provide an electronic copy of the contract.

21         (3)  This section does not require that any public

22  record that is exempt from inspection or copying under chapter

23  119, Florida Statutes, be listed on a website.

24         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.

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27                          SENATE SUMMARY

28    Requires the Department of State to create and manage a
      website to inform the public about spending by state and
29    local governmental entities under certain contracts.
      Provides for free access to the website. Provides
30    requirements concerning the content of the website.
      Provides an exemption for certain public records.
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