Senate Bill sb0004C

    Florida Senate - 2007                                   SB 4-C

    By the Committee on Fiscal Policy and Calendar Committee





    576-488-08

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act implementing the 2007-2008 special

  3         appropriations act; providing legislative

  4         intent; requiring state agencies to submit to

  5         the Executive Office of the Governor requests

  6         for revisions, additions, or deletions to

  7         approved performance measures and standards

  8         related to implementing the reductions and

  9         other changes in appropriations for the

10         2007-2008 fiscal year; requiring the judicial

11         branch to submit to the Legislature requests

12         for revisions, additions, or deletions to

13         approved performance measures and standards

14         related to implementing the reductions and

15         other changes in appropriations for the

16         2007-2008 fiscal year; requiring the Office of

17         the Inspector General in each agency to review

18         policies and procedures for the assignment and

19         use of motor vehicles by agency employees in

20         order to determine compliance with certain

21         criteria and rules of the Department of

22         Management Services; requiring each agency to

23         update the information in the Equipment

24         Management Information System; requiring a

25         report to the Governor, the Legislature, and

26         the Office of Program Policy Analysis and

27         Government Accountability by a specified date;

28         requiring that agencies adopt policies and

29         procedures to maximize the efficient use of

30         motor vehicles; providing that proposed budget

31         actions requested by the Department of

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 1         Environmental Protection are subject to review

 2         and approval by the Legislative Budget

 3         Commission; providing for the effect of a veto

 4         of one or more specific appropriations or

 5         proviso to which implementing language refers;

 6         providing for severability; providing an

 7         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.  It is the intent of the Legislature that

12  the implementing and administering provisions of this act

13  apply to the act making appropriations and reductions in

14  appropriations for the 2007-2008 fiscal year.

15         Section 2.  (1)  Pursuant to s. 216.1827, Florida

16  Statutes, executive agencies shall submit by January 15, 2008,

17  to the Executive Office of the Governor any requests for

18  revisions, additions, or deletions to approved performance

19  measures and standards related to the implementation of the

20  reductions and other changes in appropriations for the

21  2007-2008 fiscal year made by SB 2-C.

22         (2)  Pursuant to s. 216.1827, Florida Statutes, the

23  judicial branch shall submit by January 15, 2008, to the

24  Legislature any requests for revisions, additions, or

25  deletions to approved performance measures and standards

26  related to the implementation of the reductions and other

27  changes in appropriations for the 2007-2008 fiscal year made

28  by SB 2-C.

29         Section 3.  (1)  The Office of the Inspector General in

30  each agency shall review the agency's policies and procedures

31  for the assignment and use of motor vehicles by employees in

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 1  order to determine if such policies and procedures meet the

 2  criteria specified in s. 287.17, Florida Statutes, and are

 3  consistent with rules adopted by the Department of Management

 4  Services under s. 216.262, Florida Statutes. Each agency shall

 5  update all information in the Equipment Management Information

 6  System (EMIS) and submit a report that includes:

 7         (a)  The policies and procedures for fleet size, fleet

 8  management, assignment of individual and motor pool vehicles,

 9  and use of personal vehicles;

10         (b)  A list of motor vehicles owned by the agency by

11  the year, make and model, special equipment package, mileage,

12  in-service date, annual maintenance costs, and intended use;

13         (c)  A list of vehicles identified as surplus and the

14  estimated revenues to be received from the disposition of such

15  vehicles;

16         (d)  The total dollars spent in the 2006-2007 fiscal

17  year to reimburse employees for travel mileage, segregated by

18  budget entity, class code of the employee, and justification

19  for travel in a personal vehicle; and

20         (e)  Efficiency determinations derived from this

21  review.

22         (2)  The report shall be submitted by December 1, 2007,

23  to the Executive Office of the Governor, the President of the

24  Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the

25  Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government

26  Accountability.

27         (3)  Each agency shall adopt policies and procedures to

28  maximize the efficient use of limited resources regarding

29  motor vehicle assignment and use and the reimbursement of

30  transportation costs associated with the use of private

31  vehicles for conducting official business, including policies

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 1  and procedures for designating as surplus motor vehicles

 2  determined to be unnecessary for carrying out job

 3  responsibilities in the most cost-efficient manner.

 4         Section 4.  In order to implement Specific

 5  Appropriations 399 through 468 for the 2007-2008 fiscal year

 6  only and notwithstanding the provisions of ss. 216.181(6),

 7  (7), and (11) and 216.292(2) and (3), Florida Statutes, to the

 8  contrary, all proposed budget actions requested by the

 9  Department of Environmental Protection are subject to review

10  and approval by the Legislative Budget Commission.

11         Section 5.  Any section of this act which implements a

12  specific appropriation or specifically identified proviso

13  language in the act making appropriations and reductions in

14  appropriations for the 2007-2008 fiscal year is void if the

15  specific appropriation or specifically identified proviso

16  language is vetoed. Any section of this act which implements

17  more than one specific appropriation or more than one portion

18  of specifically identified proviso language in the act making

19  appropriations and reductions in appropriations for the

20  2007-2008 fiscal year is void if all the specific

21  appropriations or portions of specifically identified proviso

22  language are vetoed.

23         Section 6.  If any provision of this act or its

24  application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the

25  invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of

26  the act which can be given effect without the invalid

27  provision or application, and to this end the provisions of

28  this act are severable.

29         Section 7.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

30  law.

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