Florida Statutes Title III Chapter 11 - Legislative Organization, Procedures, And Staffing

• 11.011 - Special Session; Convened By Legislature.
  (1) The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, by joint proclamation duly filed with the Department of State, may convene...
• 11.02 - Notice Of Special Or Local Legislation Or Certain Relief Acts.
  The notice required to obtain special or local legislation or any relief act specified in s. 11.065 shall be by publishing the identical notice in...
• 11.021 - Evidence Of Publication Of Notice.
  The evidence that such notice has been published shall be established in the Legislature before such bill shall be passed, and such evidence shall be...
• 11.03 - Proof Of Publication Of Notice.
  (1) Affidavit of proof of publication of such notice of intention to apply therefor, may be made, in substantially the following general form, but such form...
• 11.031 - Official Census.
  (1) All acts of the Florida Legislature based upon population and all constitutional apportionments shall be based upon the last federal decennial statewide census.(2) No special county...
• 11.0431 - Legislative Records; Intent Of Legislation; Exemption From Public Disclosure.
  (1) It is the policy of the Legislature that every person has the right to inspect and copy records of the Senate and the House of...
• 11.044 - Legislative Intent And Purpose.
  The Legislature finds that the operation of open and responsible government requires the fullest opportunity to be afforded to the people to petition their government...
• 11.045 - Lobbying Before The Legislature; Registration And Reporting; Exemptions; Penalties.
  (1) As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:(a) “Committee” means the committee of each house charged by the presiding officer with responsibility for ethical...
• 11.0451 - Requirements For Reinstitution Of Lobbyist Registration After Felony Conviction.
  A person convicted of a felony after January 1, 2006, may not be registered as a lobbyist pursuant to s. 11.045 until the person:(1) Has been...
• 11.0455 - Electronic Filing Of Compensation Reports And Other Information.
  (1) As used in this section, the term “electronic filing system” means an Internet system for recording and reporting lobbying compensation and other required information by...
• 11.047 - Contingency Fees; Prohibitions; Penalties.
  (1) “Contingency fee” means a fee, bonus, commission, or nonmonetary benefit as compensation which is dependent or in any way contingent on the enactment, defeat, modification,...
• 11.061 - State, State University, And Community College Employee Lobbyists; Registration; Recording Attendance; Penalty; Exemptions.
  (1) Any person employed by any executive, judicial, or quasi-judicial department of the state or community college or state university who seeks to encourage the passage,...
• 11.062 - Use Of State Funds For Lobbying Prohibited; Penalty.
  (1) No funds, exclusive of salaries, travel expenses, and per diem, appropriated to, or otherwise available for use by, any executive, judicial, or quasi-judicial department shall...
• 11.065 - Claims Against State; Limitations; Notice.
  (1) No claims against the state shall be presented to the Legislature more than 4 years after the cause for relief accrued. Any claim presented after...
• 11.066 - Suits Seeking Monetary Damages Against The State Or Its Agencies; Payment Of Judgments; Appropriations Required.
  (1) As used in this section, the term “appropriation made by law” has the same meaning as in s. 1(c), Art. VII of the State Constitution...
• 11.07 - Method Of Enrolling Bills, Etc.
  (1) All bills and joint resolutions passed by the Senate and House of Representatives shall be duly enrolled, on paper, by the Secretary of the Senate...
• 11.111 - Continuance Of Certain Causes For Term Of Legislature And Period Of Time Prior And Subsequent Thereto And Committee Workdays.
  Any proceeding before any court, municipality, or agency of government of this state shall stand continued, without the continuance being charged against any party, during...
• 11.12 - Salary, Subsistence, And Mileage Of Members And Employees; Expenses Authorized By Resolution; Appropriation; Preaudit.
  (1) The Chief Financial Officer is authorized to pay the salary, subsistence, and mileage of the members of the Legislature as the same shall be authorized...
• 11.13 - Compensation Of Members.
  (1)(a) The annual salaries of members of the Senate and House of Representatives, payable in 12 equal monthly installments, shall be:1. The President of the Senate and...
• 11.131 - Monetary Supplements Prohibited.
  All laws or parts of laws, both general or local, which provide a monetary supplement to state legislators from county funds, either as a direct...
• 11.135 - Legislative Committees, Units, And Offices; Expenditures.
  The Legislature hereby declares and determines that its standing and select committees and all units and offices of the legislative branch of government are not...
• 11.143 - Standing Or Select Committees; Powers.
  (1) Each standing or select committee, or subcommittee thereof, is authorized to invite public officials and employees and private individuals to appear before the committee for...
• 11.1465 - Services Provided To Legislature.
  The House of Representatives and the Senate shall be independently responsible for providing the following services to their respective members and committees:(1) Legal research and drafting...
• 11.147 - Office Of Legislative Services.
  (1) The Office of Legislative Services, designated as such by joint rule of the Legislature or by agreement between the President of the Senate and the...
• 11.151 - Annual Legislative Appropriation To Contingency Fund For Use Of Senate President And House Speaker.
  There is established a legislative contingency fund consisting of $20,000 for the President of the Senate and $20,000 for the Speaker of the House of...
• 11.241 - Permanent Statutory Revision Plan Created.
  There is created a permanent statutory revision plan to be implemented and maintained under the supervision of the Office of Legislative Services.History.—s. 2, ch. 67-472;...
• 11.242 - Powers, Duties, And Functions As To Statutory Revision.
  The powers, duties, and functions of the Office of Legislative Services in the operation and maintenance of a statutory revision program shall be as follows:(1) To...
• 11.2421 - Florida Statutes 2015 Adopted.
  The accompanying revision, consolidation, and compilation of the public statutes of 2014 of a general and permanent nature, excepting tables, rules, indexes, and other related...
• 11.2422 - Statutes Repealed.
  Every statute of a general and permanent nature enacted by the State or by the Territory of Florida at or prior to the August 7-11,...
• 11.2423 - Laws Or Statutes Not Repealed.
  (1) No special or local statute, or statute, local, limited or special in its nature, shall be repealed by the Florida Statutes, now or hereafter adopted,...
• 11.2424 - Laws Not Repealed.
  Laws enacted at the 2015 regular session are not repealed by the adoption and enactment of the Florida Statutes 2015 by s. 11.2421, as amended,...
• 11.2425 - Rights Reserved Under Repealed Statutes.
  The repeal of any statute by the adoption and enactment of Florida Statutes 2015, by s. 11.2421, as amended, shall not affect any right accrued...
• 11.2427 - Conflict Of Laws.
  If any section in the civil part of the Florida Statutes, creating a crime or prescribing a punishment, conflicts with any section in the part...
• 11.243 - Publishing Florida Statutes; Price, Sale.
  (1) The Office of Legislative Services shall continue the statutory revision system heretofore adopted in this state and shall bring the general acts of the Legislature...
• 11.249 - Commissioners To The National Conference Of Commissioners On Uniform State Laws.
  (1) The Governor shall appoint, subject to confirmation by the Senate, three commissioners to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Such appointed commissioners,...
• 11.25 - Salaries And Expenditures Not Subject To Control Of Executive Agencies.
  (1) The Legislature hereby declares and determines that the employees of the several offices, committees, and other divisions of the Legislature are and shall continue to...
• 11.26 - Legislative Employees; Employment Restrictions.
  No employee of the Legislature shall:(1) Subject to the provisions of s. 11.0431, reveal to any person outside the area of the employee’s direct responsibility the...
• 11.40 - Legislative Auditing Committee.
  (1) The Legislative Auditing Committee may take under investigation any matter within the scope of an audit, review, or examination either completed or then being conducted...
• 11.42 - The Auditor General.
  (1) The Auditor General appointed in this section is the auditor that is required by s. 2, Art. III of the State Constitution.(2) The Auditor General shall...
• 11.45 - Definitions; Duties; Authorities; Reports; Rules.
  (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in ss. 11.40-11.51, the term:(a) “Audit” means a financial audit, operational audit, or performance audit.(b) “County agency” means a board of county commissioners or other...
• 11.47 - Penalties; Failure To Make A Proper Audit Or Examination; Making A False Report; Failure To Produce Documents Or Information.
  (1) All officers whose respective offices the Auditor General or the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability is authorized to audit or examine shall...
• 11.51 - Office Of Program Policy Analysis And Government Accountability.
  (1) The Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability is authorized to examine all entities and records listed in s. 11.45(3).(2) At the conclusion of an...
• 11.62 - Legislative Review Of Proposed Regulation Of Unregulated Functions.
  (1) This section may be cited as the “Sunrise Act.”(2) It is the intent of the Legislature:(a) That no profession or occupation be subject to regulation by the...
• 11.90 - Legislative Budget Commission.
  (1) There is created the Legislative Budget Commission, which is the joint Legislative Budget Commission created in s. 19, Art. III of the State Constitution, composed...
• 11.9005 - Government Efficiency Task Force.
  (1) There is created the Government Efficiency Task Force. The task force shall convene no later than January 2007, and each 4th year thereafter. The task...
• 11.93 - Short Title.
  Sections 11.93-11.9352 may be cited as the “Article V Constitutional Convention Act.”History.—s. 1, ch. 2014-52.
• 11.931 - Applicability.
  Sections 11.93-11.9352 shall apply when an Article V convention is called for the purpose of proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States.History.—s. 2,...
• 11.932 - Definitions.
  As used in ss. 11.93-11.9352, the term:(1) “Alternate delegate” means an individual who is appointed as an alternate delegate as provided by law.(2) “Article V convention” means...
• 11.933 - Qualifications Of Delegates And Alternate Delegates.
  (1) To be appointed as a delegate or alternate delegate to an Article V convention, a person must:(a) Reside in this state.(b) Be a registered voter in this...
• 11.9331 - Appointment Of Delegates By Legislature.
  (1) Whenever an Article V convention is called, the Senate and House of Representatives shall appoint, under rules adopted jointly by the Senate and House of...
• 11.9332 - Appointment By Majority Vote Of Each Chamber; Pairing Delegates And Alternate Delegates.
  (1) To be appointed as a delegate or an alternate delegate, a person must receive, in each chamber, the vote of a majority of all the...
• 11.9333 - Recall; Filling A Vacancy; Special Legislative Session.
  (1) The Legislature may, at any time, recall a delegate or alternate delegate and replace that delegate or alternate delegate with an individual appointed under ss....
• 11.9334 - Method Of Appointment And Recall.
  The Legislature shall appoint or recall delegates or alternate delegates by concurrent resolution.History.—s. 8, ch. 2014-52.
• 11.9335 - Reimbursement Of Per Diem And Travel Expenses.
  A delegate or alternate delegate shall serve without compensation but may be reimbursed for per diem and travel expenses pursuant to s. 112.061.History.—s. 9, ch.
• 11.9336 - Oath.
  Each delegate and alternate delegate shall, before exercising any function of the position, execute an oath in the state and in writing that the delegate...
• 11.9337 - Filing Of Oath; Issuance Of Commission.
  The executed oath of a delegate or alternate delegate shall be filed with the Secretary of State. After the oath is filed, the Governor shall...
• 11.934 - Instructions To Delegates.
  (1) When delegates and alternate delegates are appointed, the Legislature shall adopt a concurrent resolution to provide instructions to the delegates and alternate delegates regarding the...
• 11.9341 - Duties Of Alternate Delegates.
  An alternate delegate:(1) Shall act in the place of the paired delegate when the paired delegate is absent from the Article V convention.(2) Replaces the paired delegate...
• 11.9342 - Vote Cast Outside The Scope Of Instructions Or Limits; Status Of Vote.
  A vote cast by a delegate or an alternate delegate at an Article V convention is void if the vote is outside the scope of:(1) The...
• 11.9343 - Vote Cast Outside The Scope Of Instructions Or Limits; Appointment Forfeited.
  (1) A delegate or alternate delegate forfeits his or her appointment by virtue of a vote or attempt to vote that is outside the scope of:(a) The...
• 11.9344 - Vote Cast Outside The Scope Of Instructions Or Limits; Status Of Application.
  The application of the Legislature to call an Article V convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States ceases to be a...
• 11.9345 - Vote Cast Outside The Scope Of Instructions; Criminal Liability.
  A delegate or alternate delegate commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083, who signs an oath...
• 11.935 - Article V Convention Advisory Group.
  (1) As used in this section, the term “advisory group” means the Article V convention delegate advisory group.(2) The advisory group consists of the following members:(a) An attorney...
• 11.9351 - Oversight Of Delegates With Respect To Instructions.
  (1) The advisory group, on its own motion, or upon the request of the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or...
• 11.9352 - Advisory Determination Concerning A Vote Outside The Scope Of Instructions.
  Immediately, upon receipt of an advisory determination that finds that a vote or attempt to vote by a delegate or alternate delegate is a violation...

Last modified: September 23, 2016