Florida Senate - 2010 SB 2216
By the Committee on Ethics and Elections
582-02181-10 20102216__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to a review of the Department of State
3 under the Florida Government Accountability Act;
4 reenacting s. 20.10(2)(a), F.S., relating to the
5 Division of Elections within the department; providing
6 an effective date.
7
8 WHEREAS, ss. 11.901-11.920, F.S., Florida Statutes, the
9 Florida Government Accountability Act, subjects the Division of
10 Elections within the Department of State to a sunset review
11 process in order to determine whether the agency should be
12 retained, modified, or abolished, and
13 WHEREAS, the Department of State produced a report
14 providing specific information, as enumerated in s. 11.906,
15 Florida Statutes, and
16 WHEREAS, upon receipt of the report, the Joint Legislative
17 Sunset Committee and committees of the Senate and the House of
18 Representatives assigned to act as sunset review committees
19 reviewed the report, and
20 WHEREAS, based on the report and public input, the
21 legislative sunset review committees made recommendations on the
22 abolition, continuation, or reorganization of the Division of
23 Elections within the Department of State; on the need for the
24 functions performed by this division; and on the consolidation,
25 transfer, or reorganization of programs within the Department of
26 State under review, NOW, THEREFORE,
27
28 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
29
30 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
31 20.10, Florida Statutes, is reenacted.
32 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.