CS/HB 121

1	A bill to be entitled
2	An act relating to cost-benefit, return-on-investment, and
3	dynamic scoring techniques; creating s. 216.138, F.S.;
4	authorizing the President of the Senate or the Speaker of
5	the House of Representatives to request special impact
6	sessions of consensus estimating conferences to evaluate
7	proposed legislation based on specified techniques;
8	providing for the information used in the evaluations to
9	be available to the public unless otherwise exempt from
10	disclosure; requiring the Office of Economic and
11	Demographic Research to develop protocols and procedures
12	to be used by the consensus estimating conferences when
13	evaluating proposed legislation; establishing minimum
14	requirements; requiring a report to the Legislature;
15	requiring the use of the protocols and procedures
16	following legislative approval until such approval is
17	affirmatively revoked; amending s. 216.133, F.S.;
18	conforming a cross-reference to changes made by the act;
19	providing an effective date.
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21	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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23	Section 1.  Section 216.138, Florida Statutes, is created
24	to read:
25	216.138  Authority to request additional analysis of
26	legislation.-The President of the Senate or the Speaker of the
27	House of Representatives may request special impact sessions of
28	consensus estimating conferences to evaluate proposed
29	legislation based on tools and models not generally employed by
30	the conferences, including cost-benefit, return-on-investment,
31	or dynamic scoring techniques, when suitable and appropriate for
32	the legislation being evaluated. Unless exempt from s.
33	119.07(1), information used to develop the analyses shall be
34	available to the public.
35	Section 2.  The Office of Economic and Demographic
36	Research, acting in consultation with the principals of the
37	consensus estimating conferences and after receiving public
38	input, shall develop protocols and procedures necessary to
39	implement s. 216.138, Florida Statutes. At a minimum, the
40	protocols and procedures to be used for evaluating specific
41	proposed legislation shall include cost-benefit, return-on-
42	investment, and dynamic scoring techniques and may include
43	additional, appropriate economic techniques. Additionally, the
44	protocols and procedures must address the format for reporting
45	results and provide proposed linkages to the appropriations and
46	revenue forecasting processes, including any statutory changes
47	that may be needed. The linkages must be consistent with the
48	constitutional requirement for a balanced budget. The office
49	shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the
50	President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
51	Representatives by December 1, 2010. Subject to approval by the
52	President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
53	Representatives following the submission of the report, the
54	protocols and procedures shall be used to the extent feasible
55	for the analysis of specific proposed legislation by consensus
56	estimating conferences as provided in s. 216.138, Florida
57	Statutes, unless and until such approval is subsequently
58	affirmatively revoked.
59	Section 3.  Section 216.133, Florida Statutes, is amended
60	to read:
61	216.133  Definitions; ss. 216.133-216.138 216.133-216.137.-
62	As used in ss. 216.133-216.138 216.133-216.137:
63	(1)  "Consensus estimating conference" includes the
64	Economic Estimating Conference, the Demographic Estimating
65	Conference, the Revenue Estimating Conference, the Education
66	Estimating Conference, the Criminal Justice Estimating
67	Conference, the Occupational Forecasting Conference, the Early
68	Learning Programs Estimating Conference, the Self-Insurance
69	Estimating Conference, the Florida Retirement System Actuarial
70	Assumption Conference, and the Social Services Estimating
71	Conference.
72	(2)  "Official information" means the data, forecasts,
73	estimates, analyses, studies, and other information which the
74	principals of a consensus estimating conference unanimously
75	adopt for purposes of the state planning and budgeting system.
76	(3)  "Consensus" means the unanimous consent of all of the
77	principals of a consensus estimating conference.
78	Section 4.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.

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