Florida Senate - 2013                              CS for SB 544
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Ethics and Elections; and Senator Braynon
       
       
       
       
       582-02221-13                                           2013544c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to exemption from legislative lobbying
    3         requirements; amending s. 11.045, F.S.; revising the
    4         term “expenditure” to exclude the use of a public
    5         facility or public property that is made available by
    6         a governmental entity to a legislator for a public
    7         purpose, to exempt such use from legislative lobbying
    8         requirements; 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. Paragraph (c) of subsection (1) of section
   13  11.045, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         11.045 Lobbying before the Legislature; registration and
   15  reporting; exemptions; penalties.—
   16         (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise
   17  requires:
   18         (c) “Expenditure” means a payment, distribution, loan,
   19  advance, reimbursement, deposit, or anything of value made by a
   20  lobbyist or principal for the purpose of lobbying. The term does
   21  not include:
   22         1. Contributions or expenditures reported pursuant to
   23  chapter 106 or federal election law, campaign-related personal
   24  services provided without compensation by individuals
   25  volunteering their time, any other contribution or expenditure
   26  made by or to a political party or affiliated party committee,
   27  or any other contribution or expenditure made by an organization
   28  that is exempt from taxation under 26 U.S.C. s. 527 or s.
   29  501(c)(4).
   30         2. A government-to-government use, which is the use of a
   31  public facility or public property that is made available by a
   32  governmental entity to a legislator for a public purpose,
   33  regardless of whether the governmental entity is required to
   34  register any person as a lobbyist pursuant to this section.
   35         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.