Florida Senate - 2024                                     SB 276
       
       
        
       By Senator Avila
       
       
       
       
       
       39-00291A-24                                           2024276__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to review of advisory bodies; amending
    3         s. 20.052, F.S.; requiring certain executive agencies
    4         to annually upload a report to a specified website
    5         maintained by the Executive Office of the Governor by
    6         a specified date; providing requirements for such
    7         report; providing that specified provisions are
    8         subject to repeal, unless reviewed and saved from
    9         repeal by the Legislature within a specified
   10         timeframe; providing an effective date.
   11          
   12  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   14         Section 1. Subsections (7) and (8) are added to section
   15  20.052, Florida Statutes, to read:
   16         20.052 Advisory bodies, commissions, boards;
   17  establishment.—Each advisory body, commission, board of
   18  trustees, or any other collegial body created by specific
   19  statutory enactment as an adjunct to an executive agency must be
   20  established, evaluated, or maintained in accordance with the
   21  following provisions:
   22         (7) To comply with subsection (3), each executive agency
   23  that has an adjunct advisory body must annually upload a report
   24  by August 15 to the website maintained by the Executive Office
   25  of the Governor pursuant to s. 215.985(5). The report must
   26  include all of the following information:
   27         (a) The statutory authority pursuant to which each advisory
   28  body is created.
   29         (b) A brief description of the purpose or objective of each
   30  advisory body.
   31         (c) A list indicating the membership of each advisory body,
   32  the appointing authority for each member position, whether the
   33  member positions are filled or vacant, the term of each member
   34  position, and, if vacant, when the vacancy occurred.
   35         (d) A list of the meeting dates and times of each advisory
   36  body for the preceding 3 fiscal years.
   37         (e) A brief summary of the work plan for each advisory body
   38  for the current fiscal year and the next 2 fiscal years.
   39         (f) The amount of appropriated funds and staff time used in
   40  each fiscal year to support each advisory body.
   41         (g) A recommendation by the agency, with supporting
   42  rationale, to continue, terminate, or modify each advisory body.
   43         (8) A law creating, or authorizing the creation of, an
   44  advisory body must provide for the repeal of the advisory body
   45  on October 2 of the 3rd year after enactment unless the law is
   46  reviewed and saved from repeal through reenactment by the
   47  Legislature.
   48         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.