Florida Senate - 2010 (PROPOSED COMMITTEE BILL) SPB 7056 FOR CONSIDERATION By the Committee on Commerce 577-01590-10 20107056__ 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)(c), F.S., relating to the 5 Division of Corporations within the department; 6 providing an effective date. 7 8 WHEREAS, ss. 11.901-11.920, Florida Statutes, the Florida 9 Government Accountability Act, subjects the Division of 10 Corporations 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 requested studies by the Office of 20 Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, and 21 WHEREAS, based on the report, studies by the Office of 22 Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, and 23 public input, the legislative sunset review committees made 24 recommendations on the abolition, continuation, or 25 reorganization of the Division of Corporations within the 26 Department of State; on the need for the functions performed by 27 this division; and on the consolidation, transfer, or 28 reorganization of programs within the Department of State under 29 review, NOW, THEREFORE, 30 31 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 32 33 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) of section 34 20.10, Florida Statutes, is reenacted. 35 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.