| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to the Florida State Employees' Charitable |
| 3 | Campaign; amending s. 110.181, F.S.; deleting the |
| 4 | requirement to establish local steering committees; |
| 5 | requiring undesignated campaign funds to be shared |
| 6 | proportionally by the participating charitable |
| 7 | organizations based on the percentage of designations in |
| 8 | each area; providing an effective date. |
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| 10 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 12 | Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 110.181, Florida |
| 13 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 14 | 110.181 Florida State Employees' Charitable Campaign.- |
| 15 | (2) SELECTION OF FISCAL AGENTS; COST.- |
| 16 | (a) The Department of Management Services shall select |
| 17 | through the competitive procurement process a fiscal agent or |
| 18 | agents to receive, account for, and distribute charitable |
| 19 | contributions among participating charitable organizations. |
| 20 | (b) The fiscal agent shall withhold the reasonable costs |
| 21 | for conducting the campaign and for accounting and distribution |
| 22 | to the participating organizations and shall reimburse the |
| 23 | department the actual cost, not to exceed 1 percent of gross |
| 24 | pledges, for coordinating the campaign in accordance with the |
| 25 | rules of the department. In any fiscal year in which the |
| 26 | Legislature specifically appropriates to the department its |
| 27 | total costs for coordinating the campaign from the General |
| 28 | Revenue Fund, the fiscal agent is not required to reimburse such |
| 29 | costs to the department under this subsection. Otherwise, |
| 30 | reimbursement will be the difference between actual costs and |
| 31 | the amount appropriated. |
| 32 | (c) The fiscal agent shall furnish the department and |
| 33 | participating charitable organizations a report of the |
| 34 | accounting and distribution activities. Records relating to |
| 35 | these activities shall be open for inspection upon reasonable |
| 36 | notice and request. |
| 37 | (d) A local steering committee shall be established in |
| 38 | each fiscal agent area to assist in conducting the campaign and |
| 39 | to direct the distribution of undesignated funds remaining after |
| 40 | partial distribution pursuant to paragraph (e). The committee |
| 41 | shall be composed of state employees selected by the fiscal |
| 42 | agent from among recommendations provided by interested |
| 43 | participating organizations, if any, and approved by the |
| 44 | Statewide Steering Committee. |
| 45 | (d)(e) Participating charitable organizations that provide |
| 46 | direct services in a local fiscal agent's area shall receive the |
| 47 | same percentage of undesignated funds as the percentage of |
| 48 | designated funds they receive in the campaign. The payment of |
| 49 | each charity's share of undesignated funds shall be distributed |
| 50 | in the same manner as the designations. The undesignated funds |
| 51 | remaining following allocation to these charitable organizations |
| 52 | shall be distributed by the local steering committee. |
| 53 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010. |