Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 2694
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/07/2009           .                                
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       The Policy and Steering Committee on Ways and Means (Alexander)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 137 - 156
    5  and insert:
    6         (b) That requires the state to pay liquidated damages or
    7  early termination fees for a breach or early termination of a
    8  contract or agreement by such agency or branch due to an act of
    9  the Legislature which provides less than full funding for the
   10  contract during the fiscal year.
   11         (c) That requires the state to pay interest, other than
   12  interest paid pursuant to s. 215.422, to another party because
   13  the agency or branch has insufficient budget authority to pay
   14  the underlying obligation of the contract or agreement in the
   15  current year.
   16         (d) That binds the state to make future-year payments to
   17  offset payments not made in a prior year due to insufficient
   18  budget authority, unless the Legislature expressly authorizes
   19  the agency or branch to enter into such contract or agreement.
   20         (e) To grant to any party the right or privilege to collect
   21  and retain fees or other revenues from persons who are not a
   22  party to the contract which would otherwise be payable to the
   23  state and deposited into the State Treasury, unless the
   24  Legislature expressly authorizes the agency or branch to enter
   25  into such contract or agreement.
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   28         And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete lines 9 - 16
   30  and insert:
   31         legislative authority, liquidated damages or early
   32         termination fees resulting from the breach or early
   33         termination of a contract or agreement, from
   34         contracting to pay interest because of insufficient
   35         budget authority to pay an obligation in the current
   36         year, from obligating the state to make future
   37         payments to cover unpaid payments, or from granting to
   38         a party the right to collect fees or