Florida Senate - 2014                             CS for SB 1474
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Ethics and Elections; and Senator Abruzzo
       
       
       
       
       
       582-02729-14                                          20141474c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public officers and employees;
    3         amending s. 112.326, F.S.; authorizing the electors of
    4         a political subdivision to impose additional or more
    5         stringent standards of conduct and disclosure
    6         requirements upon the political subdivision’s officers
    7         and employees; requiring a local ethics agency or
    8         commission to establish certain procedures; providing
    9         an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Section 112.326, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   14  read:
   15         112.326 Additional requirements by political subdivisions
   16  and agencies not prohibited.—Nothing in This part does not
   17  prohibit the electors or act shall prohibit the governing body
   18  of a any political subdivision, by ordinance, or agency, by
   19  rule, from imposing upon its own officers and employees
   20  additional or more stringent standards of conduct and disclosure
   21  requirements than those specified in this part, if provided that
   22  those standards of conduct and disclosure requirements do not
   23  otherwise conflict with the provisions of this part. Procedures
   24  of a local ethics agency or commission governing complaints and
   25  investigations shall conform with procedures established under
   26  s. 112.324.
   27         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2014.