Florida Senate - 2013 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SPB 7006 Barcode 919682 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House Comm: FAV . 01/23/2013 . . . . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Latvala) recommended the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Between lines 1009 and 1010 4 insert: 5 Section 15. Paragraphs (a) and (c) of subsection (8) of 6 section 112.3215, Florida Statutes, are amended, present 7 subsections (11) through (14) are renumbered as (12) through 8 (15), respectively, and a new subsection (11) is created to 9 read: 10 112.3215 Lobbying before the executive branch or the 11 Constitution Revision Commission; registration and reporting; 12 investigation by commission.— 13 (8)(a) The commission shall investigate every sworn 14 complaint that is filed with it alleging that a person covered 15 by this section has failed to register, has failed to submit a 16 compensation report, has made a prohibited expenditure or has 17 knowingly submitted false information in any report or 18 registration required in this section. 19 (c) The commission shall investigate any lobbying firm, 20 lobbyist, principal, agency, officer, or employee upon receipt 21 of information from a sworn complaint or from a random audit of 22 lobbying reports indicating a possible violation other than a 23 late-filed report. 24 (11) Any person who is required to be registered or to provide 25 information under this section or under rules adopted pursuant 26 to this section and who knowingly fails to disclose any material 27 fact that is required by this section or by rules adopted 28 pursuant to this section, or who knowingly provides false 29 information on any report required by this section or by rules 30 adopted pursuant to this section, commits a noncriminal 31 infraction, punishable by a fine not to exceed $5,000. Such 32 penalty is in addition to any other penalty assessed by the 33 Governor and Cabinet pursuant to subsection (10). 34 35 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 36 And the title is amended as follows: 37 Delete line 162 38 and insert: 39 thereto; amending s. 112.3215, F.S.; authorizing the 40 commission to investigate sworn complaints alleging a 41 prohibited expenditure; authorizing the commission to 42 investigate a lobbyist or principal upon a sworn 43 complaint or random audit; providing a civil penalty; 44 amending s. 112.324, F.S.; authorizing