Florida Senate - 2018                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SJR 792
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/31/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Ethics and Elections (Lee) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with ballot amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 43 - 59
    4  and insert:
    5         (4) As prescribed by general law, review and certify,
    6  before execution, that each proposed contract of a state agency,
    7  entity, or officer of the executive branch requiring a payment
    8  or aggregate payments in excess of ten million dollars from
    9  funds appropriated to the state agency, entity, or officer:
   10         a. Complies with general laws relating to procurement;
   11         b. Includes all provisions required by general law for
   12  state agency contracts; and
   13         c. Does not require payments by the state agency, entity,
   14  or officer in any fiscal year in excess of the amount
   15  appropriated for that fiscal year or the amount authorized by
   16  general law, for the purpose of the contract.
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   18  The legislature shall enact legislation to implement this
   19  paragraph, including the adjustment, to be adjusted at least
   20  every four years, of the contract amount threshold to reflect
   21  the rate of inflation or deflation as indicated in the Consumer
   22  Price Index for All Urban Consumers, U.S. City Average, All
   23  Items, or a successor index, as calculated by the United States
   24  Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, or its successor
   25  agency.
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   27  ====== B A L L O T  S T A T E M E N T  A M E N D M E N T ======
   28  And the ballot statement is amended as follows:
   29         Delete lines 81 - 89
   30  and insert:
   31         DUTIES OF THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.—Expands the Chief
   32  Financial Officer’s duties to require that he or she participate
   33  as a principal in consensus economic, demographic, and revenue
   34  estimating conferences and review and certify certain state
   35  contracts above a threshold dollar amount to ensure compliance
   36  with certain laws and that such contracts do not require
   37  payments in any fiscal year which exceed the amount appropriated
   38  or the amount authorized by law. Requires the Legislature to
   39  enact legislation to implement the amendment.