Florida Statutes Title XIV Chapter 216 - Planning And Budgeting

• 216.011 - Definitions.
  (1) For the purpose of fiscal affairs of the state, appropriations acts, legislative budgets, and approved budgets, each of the following terms has the meaning indicated:(a) “Annual...
• 216.0111 - State Agency Contracts; Required Information To Be Provided To Department Of Financial Services.
  (1) Each state agency, as defined in s. 216.011, shall provide the following information to the Department of Financial Services regarding the agency’s contracted activities:(a) The nature...
• 216.0113 - Preferred Pricing Clauses In State Contracts; Compliance Required.
  (1) Each state agency, as defined in s. 216.011, shall review its contracts and, for any contract with a preferred-pricing clause, the agency shall ensure that...
• 216.012 - Long-range Financial Outlook.
  (1) The commission shall develop a long-range 3-year financial outlook and shall update that outlook each year.(2) Each state agency shall provide information to the commission, based...
• 216.013 - Long-range Program Plan.
  State agencies and the judicial branch shall develop long-range program plans to achieve state goals using an interagency planning process that includes the development of...
• 216.015 - Capital Facilities Planning And Budgeting Process.
  (1) Sections 216.015-216.016 may be cited as the “Capital Facilities Planning and Budgeting Act.”(2) The Legislature finds that there is a need to establish a comprehensive capital...
• 216.0152 - Inventory Of State-owned Facilities Or State-occupied Facilities.
  (1) The Department of Management Services shall develop and maintain an automated inventory of all facilities owned, leased, rented, or otherwise occupied or maintained by a...
• 216.0153 - Comprehensive State-owned Real Property System.
  Whereas, the Legislature finds that it is in the best interest of the state to identify surplus property and dispose of such property owned by...
• 216.0158 - Assessment Of Facility Needs.
  (1) By analyzing the trends and conditions, goals and objectives, and current facilities inventory, each agency and the judicial branch shall determine its unmet and forecasted...
• 216.016 - Evaluation Of Plans; Determination Of Financing Method.
  (1) Pursuant to the requirements of s. 216.044, the Department of Management Services shall evaluate state agency plans and plans of the judicial branch.(2)(a) The Executive Office...
• 216.023 - Legislative Budget Requests To Be Furnished To Legislature By Agencies.
  (1) The head of each state agency, except as provided in subsection (2), shall submit a final legislative budget request to the Legislature and to the...
• 216.0236 - Agency Fees For Regulatory Services Or Oversight; Criteria.
  (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that all costs of providing a regulatory service or regulating a profession or business be borne solely by...
• 216.031 - Target Budget Request.
  Either chair of a legislative appropriations committee, or the Executive Office of the Governor for state agencies, may require the agency or the Chief Justice...
• 216.043 - Budgets For Fixed Capital Outlay.
  (1) A legislative budget request, reflecting the independent judgment of the head of the agency or of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court with respect...
• 216.044 - Budget Evaluation By Department Of Management Services.
  (1) Any state agency or judicial branch entity requesting a fixed capital outlay project to be managed by the Department of Management Services shall consult with...
• 216.0442 - Truth In Bonding; Definitions; Summary Of State Debt; Statement Of Proposed Financing; Truth-in-bonding Statement.
  (1) As used in this section, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context otherwise requires:(a) “Costs of issuance” means all of...
• 216.052 - Community Budget Requests; Appropriations.
  (1) A local, county, or regional governmental entity, private organization, or nonprofit organization may submit a request for a state appropriation for a program, service, or...
• 216.053 - Summary Information In The General Appropriations Act; Construction Of Such Information.
  (1) For informational purposes only, the General Appropriations Act shall contain summary information that covers specific appropriations and summarizes program areas.(2) The purpose of the summary information...
• 216.065 - Fiscal Impact Statements On Actions Affecting The Budget.
  In addition to the applicable requirements of chapter 120, before the Governor, or Governor and Cabinet as a body, performing any constitutional or statutory duty,...
• 216.071 - Reports Of Legislature.
  No right to require reports from the Legislature or from any committee thereof is granted by this chapter.History.—s. 31, ch. 69-106.
• 216.081 - Data On Legislative And Judicial Branch Expenses.
  (1) In sufficient time to be included in the Governor’s recommended budget, estimates of the financial needs of the legislative branch and the judicial branch during...
• 216.102 - Filing Of Financial Information; Handling By Chief Financial Officer; Penalty For Noncompliance.
  (1) By September 30 of each year, each agency supported by any form of taxation, licenses, fees, imposts, or exactions, the judicial branch, and, for financial...
• 216.103 - Agencies Receiving Federal Funds; Designation Of Coordinating Official; Duties.
  (1) The intent of the Legislature is that state agencies which receive federal funds take appropriate steps to enhance their level of readiness in preparing for...
• 216.121 - Information To Be Furnished To The Executive Office Of The Governor.
  Each state agency, upon request, shall promptly furnish to the Executive Office of the Governor any information in relation to the affairs or activities of...
• 216.131 - Public Hearings On Legislative Budgets.
  The Governor and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court shall each provide for at least one public hearing prior to submission of budget recommendations...
• 216.133 - Definitions; Ss. 216.133-216.138.
  As used in ss. 216.133-216.138:(1) “Consensus estimating conference” includes the Economic Estimating Conference, the Demographic Estimating Conference, the Revenue Estimating Conference, the Education Estimating Conference, the...
• 216.134 - Consensus Estimating Conferences; General Provisions.
  (1) Each consensus estimating conference shall develop such official information within its area of responsibility as the conference determines, by consensus, is needed for purposes of...
• 216.135 - Use Of Official Information By State Agencies And The Judicial Branch.
  Each state agency and the judicial branch shall use the official information developed by the consensus estimating conferences in carrying out their duties under the...
• 216.136 - Consensus Estimating Conferences; Duties And Principals.
  (1) ECONOMIC ESTIMATING CONFERENCE.—The Economic Estimating Conference shall develop such official information with respect to the national and state economies as the conference determines is needed...
• 216.137 - Sessions Of Consensus Estimating Conferences; Workpapers.
  (1) SESSIONS.—A session of a consensus estimating conference may be convened as follows:(a) For the Governor.—A session may be convened at the call of the Executive Office...
• 216.138 - Authority To Request Additional Analysis Of Legislative Proposals.
  (1) The President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives may request special impact estimating conferences to evaluate legislative proposals based on...
• 216.141 - Budget System Procedures; Planning And Programming By State Agencies.
  (1) The Executive Office of the Governor, in consultation with the appropriations committees of the Senate and House of Representatives, and by utilizing the Florida Financial...
• 216.151 - Duties Of The Executive Office Of The Governor.
  It shall be the duty of the Executive Office of the Governor to:(1) Make a detailed study, as necessary, of each of the several state agencies,...
• 216.162 - Governor’s Recommended Budget To Be Furnished Legislature; Copies To Members.
  (1) At least 30 days before the scheduled annual legislative session, or at a later date if requested by the Governor and approved in writing by...
• 216.163 - Governor’s Recommended Budget; Form And Content; Declaration Of Collective Bargaining Impasses.
  (1) The Governor’s recommended budget shall be referenced to the legislative budget requests prescribed in ss. 216.023 and 216.043 and shall be consistent with the format...
• 216.164 - Governor’s Recommended Budget; Supporting Information.
  (1) Not later than 14 days after the Governor submits his or her recommended budget to the Legislature pursuant to ss. 216.162 and 216.163, the Executive...
• 216.165 - Governor’s Recommended Revenues.
  The Governor shall recommend revenues for the funds provided for in s. 215.32. The recommended revenues shall be sufficient to fund his or her recommended...
• 216.166 - Governor’s Recommended Revenues; Supporting Information.
  (1) Not later than 14 days after the Governor submits his or her recommended revenues to the Legislature pursuant to s. 216.165, the Executive Office of...
• 216.167 - Governor’s Recommendations.
  The Governor’s recommendations shall include a financial schedule that provides:(1) The Governor’s estimate of the recommended recurring revenues available in the Budget Stabilization Fund and the...
• 216.168 - Governor’s Amended Revenue Or Budget Recommendations; Optional And Mandatory.
  (1) At any time following submission of his or her budget recommendations and revenues recommendations, the Governor may amend his or her recommendations.(2) The amended recommendations shall...
• 216.172 - Meetings Of Legislative Appropriations Committees.
  (1) The appropriations committees of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, being in charge of appropriation measures, shall sit in open sessions while considering...
• 216.176 - Truth In Budgeting.
  The Governor’s recommended budget shall contain a “truth in budgeting” statement which shall display in summary form all currently estimated fees, taxes, revenues, or other...
• 216.177 - Appropriations Acts, Statement Of Intent, Violation, Notice, Review And Objection Procedures.
  (1) When an appropriations act is delivered to the Governor after the Legislature has adjourned sine die, as soon as practicable, but no later than the...
• 216.178 - General Appropriations Act; Format; Procedure.
  (1) Any information contained in a conference committee report on a general or supplemental appropriations bill, on any other bill adopted by the same conference committee...
• 216.179 - Reinstatement Of Vetoed Appropriations By Administrative Means Prohibited.
  After the Governor has vetoed a specific appropriation for an agency or the judicial branch, neither the Governor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court,...
• 216.181 - Approved Budgets For Operations And Fixed Capital Outlay.
  (1) The General Appropriations Act and any other acts containing appropriations shall be considered the original approved operating budgets for operational and fixed capital expenditures. Amendments...
• 216.1811 - Approved Operating Budgets And Appropriations For The Legislative Branch.
  (1) The Governor and the Chief Financial Officer shall each make changes to the original approved operating budgets for operational and fixed capital expenditures relating to...
• 216.1815 - Agency Incentive And Savings Program.
  (1) In order to provide an incentive for agencies and the judicial branch to re-engineer business processes and otherwise increase operating efficiency, it is the intent...
• 216.182 - Approval Of Fixed Capital Outlay Program Plan.
  (1) The Executive Office of the Governor shall have the authority to approve the program plan of fixed capital outlay projects to assure that each is...
• 216.1826 - Activity-based Planning And Budgeting.
  Agencies are directed to work in consultation with the Executive Office of the Governor and the appropriations and appropriate substantive committees of the Legislature, and...
• 216.1827 - Requirements For Performance Measures And Standards.
  (1) Agencies and the judicial branch shall maintain a comprehensive performance accountability system containing, at a minimum, a list of performance measures and standards that are...
• 216.192 - Release Of Appropriations; Revision Of Budgets.
  (1) Unless otherwise provided in law, on July 1 of each fiscal year, up to 25 percent of the original approved operating budget of each agency...
• 216.195 - Impoundment Of Funds; Restricted.
  The Executive Office of the Governor, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, any member of the Cabinet, or any state agency shall not impound...
• 216.201 - Services Of Executive Office Of The Governor To Be Available To Legislature.
  The services of the Executive Office of the Governor shall be available to the Legislature for procuring such fiscal or other data as the Legislature...
• 216.212 - Budgets For Federal Funds; Restrictions On Expenditure Of Federal Funds.
  (1) The Executive Office of the Governor and the office of the Chief Financial Officer shall develop and implement procedures for accelerating the drawdown of, and...
• 216.216 - Court Settlement Funds Negotiated By The State.
  In any court settlement in which a state agency or officer or any other counsel representing the interests of the state negotiates settlement amounts to...
• 216.221 - Appropriations As Maximum Appropriations; Adjustment Of Budgets To Avoid Or Eliminate Deficits.
  (1) All appropriations shall be maximum appropriations, based upon the collection of sufficient revenues to meet and provide for such appropriations. It is the duty of...
• 216.222 - Budget Stabilization Fund; Criteria For Withdrawing Moneys.
  (1) Moneys in the Budget Stabilization Fund may be transferred to the General Revenue Fund for:(a)1. Offsetting a deficit in the General Revenue Fund. A deficit is...
• 216.231 - Release Of Certain Classified Appropriations.
  (1)(a) Any appropriation to the Executive Office of the Governor which is classified as an emergency, as defined in s. 252.34, may be released only with...
• 216.241 - Initiation Or Commencement Of New Programs; Approval; Expenditure Of Certain Revenues.
  (1) A state agency or the judicial branch may not initiate or commence any new program, including any new federal program or initiative, or make changes...
• 216.251 - Salary Appropriations; Limitations.
  (1) The annual rate of salary of any officer or employee filling the position specifically named in an item in the appropriations acts shall be as...
• 216.262 - Authorized Positions.
  (1)(a) Unless otherwise expressly provided by law, the total number of authorized positions may not exceed the total provided in the appropriations acts. In the event...
• 216.271 - Revolving Funds.
  (1) No revolving fund may be established or increased in amount pursuant to s. 17.58(2), unless approved by the Chief Financial Officer. The purpose and uses...
• 216.272 - Working Capital Trust Funds.
  (1) There are hereby created Working Capital Trust Funds for the purpose of providing sufficient funds for the operation of data processing centers, which may include...
• 216.273 - Administered Funds Trust Fund.
  (1) The Administered Funds Trust Fund is created within the Executive Office of the Governor.(2) The trust fund shall be used for the purpose of allocating to...
• 216.275 - Clearing Accounts.
  No clearing account may be established outside the State Treasury pursuant to s. 17.58(2) unless approved by the Chief Financial Officer during the fiscal year....
• 216.292 - Appropriations Nontransferable; Exceptions.
  (1)(a) Funds provided in the General Appropriations Act or as otherwise expressly provided by law shall be expended only for the purpose for which appropriated, except...
• 216.301 - Appropriations; Undisbursed Balances.
  (1)(a) As of June 30th of each year, for appropriations for operations only, each department and the judicial branch shall identify in the state’s financial system...
• 216.311 - Unauthorized Contracts In Excess Of Appropriations; Penalty.
  (1) No agency or branch of state government shall contract to spend, or enter into any agreement to spend, any moneys in excess of the amount...
• 216.313 - Contract Appropriation; Requirements.
  An executive or judicial branch public officer or employee may not enter into any contract or agreement on behalf of the state or judicial branch...
• 216.321 - Construction Of Chapter 216 As Unauthorized Expenditures And Disbursements.
  Nothing contained in any legislative budget or operating budget shall be construed to be an administrative or legislative construction affirming the existence then of the...
• 216.345 - Professional Or Other Organization Membership Dues; Payment.
  (1) A state department, agency, bureau, commission, or other component of state government, or the judicial branch, upon approval by the head or the designated agent...
• 216.347 - Disbursement Of Grants And Aids Appropriations For Lobbying Prohibited.
  A state agency, a water management district, or the judicial branch may not authorize or make any disbursement of grants and aids appropriations pursuant to...
• 216.3475 - Maximum Rate Of Payment For Services Funded Under General Appropriations Act Or Awarded On A Noncompetitive Basis.
  A person or entity that is designated by the General Appropriations Act, or that is awarded funding on a noncompetitive basis, to provide services for...
• 216.348 - Fixed Capital Outlay Grants And Aids Appropriations To Certain Nonprofit Entities.
  If a bill appropriating a fixed capital outlay grants and aids appropriation requires compliance with this section, the following conditions shall apply, except to the...
• 216.351 - Subsequent Inconsistent Laws.
  Subsequent inconsistent laws shall supersede this chapter only to the extent that they do so by express reference to this section.History.—s. 31, ch. 69-106.

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