Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1832
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Gibson moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 208 - 436
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 6. The Office of Economic and Demographic Research
    6  and the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government
    7  Accountability (OPPAGA) shall develop and present to the
    8  Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the
    9  House of Representatives, an evaluation of the salary credit
   10  provided in ss. 624.509 and 624.5091, Florida Statutes.
   11         (1)The Office and OPPAGA shall coordinate the development
   12  of the evaluation and shall submit the evaluation no later than
   13  January 31, 2014.
   14         (2)The Office shall evaluate and determine the economic
   15  effect and value of the salary credit on the state’s economy
   16  over the previous 10 years.
   17         (a)The analysis must include:
   18         1. The total number of persons employed by insurance
   19  companies in this state;
   20         2. The number of jobs created by insurance companies in
   21  this state;
   22         3. The average annual income of persons holding such jobs;
   23         4. The economic impact of insurance companies on local
   24  communities, including real estate taxes, local business taxes,
   25  charitable activities; and
   26         5. The impact on state’s economy from the direct, indirect,
   27  and induced effects of the insurance-industry jobs.
   28         (b)For the purpose of evaluating the credit, the Office of
   29  Economic and Demographic Research shall include, but is not
   30  limited to, data and information from the Office of Insurance
   31  Regulation relating to insurers who received the credit during
   32  the evaluation period.
   33         (c)The analysis must use the model developed by the Office
   34  as required in s. 216.138, Florida Statutes, to evaluate the
   35  salary credit. The Office shall provide a written explanation of
   36  the key assumptions of the model and how it is used. If the
   37  Office finds that another evaluation model is more appropriate
   38  to evaluate a program, it may use another model, but it must
   39  provide an explanation as to why the selected model was more
   40  appropriate.
   41         (3)The analysis may include relevant economic development
   42  reports or analyses prepared by the Department of Economic
   43  Opportunity, Enterprise Florida, Inc., or local or regional
   44  economic development organizations; interviews with the parties
   45  involved; or any other relevant data.
   46         (4) The Office of Economic and Demographic Research and
   47  OPPAGA must be given access to all data necessary to complete
   48  the salary credit Evaluation, including any confidential data.
   49  The offices may collaborate on data collection and analysis.
   50         Section 7. Sections 1 through 5 of this act shall take
   51  effect on September 1, 2014, and section 6 shall take effect
   52  upon becoming a law.
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   54  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   55         And the title is amended as follows:
   56         Delete lines 14 - 18
   57  and insert:
   58         directing the Office of Economic and Demographic
   59         Research and the Office of Program Policy Analysis and
   60         Government Accountability (OPPAGA) to evaluate the
   61         salary credit program to determine the program’s
   62         economic effect and value on the state’s economy over
   63         the previous 10 years; requiring the Office and OPPAGA
   64         to present the results of the evaluation to the
   65         Governor, the President of the Senate, and the Speaker
   66         of the House of Representatives by a specified date;
   67         mandating that OPPAGA and the Office have access to
   68         the data necessary to complete the evaluation;
   69         providing effective dates.