Florida Senate - 2009 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1574
Barcode 145632
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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Senator Lawson moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 26 and 27
4 insert:
5 Section 2. Section 11.13, Florida Statutes, is amended to
6 read:
7 11.13 Compensation of members; powers and duties.—
8 (1)(a) The annual salaries of members of the Senate and
9 House of Representatives, payable in 12 equal monthly
10 installments, shall be:
11 1. The President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of
12 Representatives, $42,066 $25,000 each.
13 2. All other members of the Senate and House of
14 Representatives, $30,335.40 $18,000 each.
15 (b) Effective July 1, 1986, and each July 1 thereafter, the
16 annual salaries of members of the Senate and House of
17 Representatives shall be adjusted by the average percentage
18 increase in the salaries of state career service employees for
19 the fiscal year just concluded. The Appropriations Committee of
20 each house shall certify to the Office of Legislative Services
21 the average percentage increase in the salaries of state career
22 service employees before July 1 of each year. The Office of
23 Legislative Services shall, as of July 1 of each year, determine
24 the adjusted annual salaries as provided herein.
25 (2) During the time the Legislature is in session, each
26 legislator shall be paid subsistence at a rate to be established
27 by the President of the Senate for members of the Senate and the
28 Speaker of the House of Representatives for members of the
29 House. Each legislator, in addition to subsistence, shall be
30 paid travel expenses in accordance with s. 112.061(7) and (8)
31 for actual travel between the legislator’s home and the seat of
32 government for not more than one round trip per week or fraction
33 of a week during any regular, special, or extraordinary session
34 of the Legislature or for the convening of either the House or
35 Senate for official business.
36 (3) Members of any standing or select committee or
37 subcommittee thereof shall receive per diem and travel expenses
38 as provided in s. 112.061 from the appropriation for legislative
39 expenses.
40 (4) Each member of the Legislature shall be entitled to
41 receive a monthly allowance for intradistrict expenses in an
42 amount set annually by the President of the Senate for members
43 of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
44 for members of the House. In setting the amount, the costs of
45 maintaining a legislative district office or offices that
46 provide an appropriate level of constituent services shall be
47 considered. The procedure for disbursement of the monthly
48 intradistrict expense allowed shall be set from time to time by
49 the Office of Legislative Services, with the approval of the
50 President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
51 Representatives or their respective designees. Such expenses
52 shall be a proper expense of the Legislature and shall be
53 disbursed from the appropriation for legislative expense. The
54 expenses provided under this subsection shall not include any
55 travel and per diem reimbursed under subsections (2) and (3) or
56 the rules of either house.
57 (5)(a) All expenditures of the Senate, House of
58 Representatives, and offices, committees, and divisions of the
59 Legislature shall be made pursuant to and, unless changed as
60 provided below, within the limits of budgetary estimates of
61 expenditure for each fiscal year prepared and submitted prior to
62 June 15 by the administrative head of each such house, office,
63 committee, or division and approved by the President of the
64 Senate as to Senate budgets, by the Speaker of the House of
65 Representatives as to House budgets, and by the President of the
66 Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives acting
67 jointly as to joint committees and other units of the
68 Legislature. Amounts in the approved estimates of expenditure
69 may be transferred between budgetary units within the Senate,
70 House of Representatives, and joint activities by the original
71 approving authority. Funds may be transferred between items of
72 appropriation to the Legislature when approved by the President
73 of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
74 provided the total amount appropriated to the legislative branch
75 shall not be altered. The Office of Legislative Services shall
76 formulate and present to each house and office thereof
77 recommendations concerning the form and preparation of such
78 budgets and procedures for their adoption and transmission.
79 (b) Thirty days prior to the date established by s. 216.023
80 for submission of legislative budgets by all state agencies to
81 the Governor, all budgetary units required to submit estimates
82 of expenditures as provided by paragraph (a) shall annually
83 submit tentative estimates of their financial needs for the next
84 fiscal year beginning July 1 to the authorities required by that
85 paragraph so that the financial needs of the Legislature for the
86 ensuing fiscal year may be reported to the Governor by the
87 President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
88 Representatives as required by s. 216.081.
89 (c) The Office of Legislative Services shall submit on
90 forms prescribed by the Chief Financial Officer requested
91 allotments of appropriations for the fiscal year. It shall be
92 the duty of the Chief Financial Officer to release the funds and
93 authorize the expenditures for the legislative branch to be made
94 from the appropriations on the basis of the requested
95 allotments. However, the aggregate of such allotments shall not
96 exceed the total appropriations available for the fiscal year.
97 (6) The pay of members of the Senate and House of
98 Representatives shall be only as set by law.
99 (7) The powers and duties of members of the Senate and
100 House of Representatives, include, but are not limited to the
101 following, pursuant to the state constitution, general law, and
102 the rules adopted by the respective bodies:
103 (a) Providing for the generation of revenue to meet the
104 needs and expenses set forth in the state budget and balancing
105 and curing deficits as prescribed by the constitution and
106 general law;
107 (b) Filing bills to become constitutional amendments,
108 general law, or local law;
109 (c) Faithfully pursuing district priorities without
110 compromising statewide priorities;
111 (d) Conducting business with other members or persons,
112 whether in an official or committee capacity; pursuant to the
113 oath of office prescribed in s. 876.05 and s. 5, Art. II, State
114 Constitution; and
115 (e) Avoiding any form or appearance of a conflict of
116 interest or personal self-enrichment not in order of the office.
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118 A member who violates this subsection commits a breach of the
119 public trust as defined in chapter 112 and is subject to
120 prosecution by the Commission on Ethics upon the filing of a
121 complaint with the commission.
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124 And the title is amended as follows:
125 Delete line 3
126 and insert:
127 title; amending s. 11.13, F.S.; providing powers and
128 duties of members of the Legislature; providing
129 penalties for violations; increasing the base salaries
130 of the members of the Legislature; amending s. 11.143,
131 F.S.; eliminating the