Florida Senate - 2014                                    SB 1020
       
       
        
       By Senator Soto
       
       
       
       
       
       14-01445-14                                           20141020__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to inspectors general; amending s.
    3         14.32, F.S.; requiring the Chief Inspector General to
    4         publish final investigative reports in a specified
    5         manner within a certain timeframe; amending s. 20.055,
    6         F.S.; requiring final investigative reports of
    7         inspectors general to be published on an agency
    8         website within a certain timeframe; creating s.
    9         286.0015, F.S.; defining the term “unit of local
   10         government”; requiring specified reports of local
   11         governments to be published online within a certain
   12         timeframe; providing an effective date.
   13          
   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Paragraph (l) is added to subsection (2) of
   17  section 14.32, Florida Statutes, to read:
   18         14.32 Office of Chief Inspector General.—
   19         (2) The Chief Inspector General shall:
   20         (l) Publish, on the website of the Executive Office of the
   21  Governor, final investigative reports performed pursuant to this
   22  section or received from inspectors general pursuant to s.
   23  20.055. The Chief Inspector General may not publish a report on
   24  the website if the investigation is confidential or otherwise
   25  exempt from disclosure by law. The Chief Inspector General shall
   26  publish reports under this paragraph within 10 days after
   27  finalizing the report or receiving the report pursuant to s.
   28  20.055.
   29         Section 2. Present subsections (7) through (9) of section
   30  20.055, Florida Statutes, are renumbered as subsections (8)
   31  through (10), respectively, and a new subsection (7) is added to
   32  that section, to read:
   33         20.055 Agency inspectors general.—
   34         (7) If an investigation is not confidential or otherwise
   35  exempt from disclosure by law, the inspector general shall
   36  publish final investigative reports, including all responses and
   37  rebuttals authorized by this section, on the agency’s website.
   38  Within 10 days after finalizing a report, the inspector general
   39  shall publish the report and provide a copy to the Chief
   40  Inspector General for publication on the website of the
   41  Executive Office of the Governor.
   42         Section 3. Section 286.0015, Florida Statutes, is created
   43  to read:
   44         286.0015 Investigative reports of local governments; online
   45  publication.—
   46         (1) As used in this section, the term “unit of local
   47  government” means a county, municipality, special district,
   48  local agency, authority, consolidated city-county government, or
   49  any other local governmental body or public body corporate or
   50  politic authorized or created by general or special law.
   51         (2) If the investigation is not confidential or otherwise
   52  exempt from disclosure by law, a unit of local government shall
   53  publish on its website the final investigative report by an
   54  inspector general prepared for or on behalf of the unit of local
   55  government. The unit of local government shall publish a report
   56  under this section within 10 days after finalizing the report.
   57  An investigation becomes final when the audit report or
   58  investigative report is presented to the unit of local
   59  government.
   60         Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.