Chapter 11 — Chapter 11
66 sections in this chapter.
Fla. Stat. § 11.011 Special session; convened by Legislature
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(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 the Legislature in special session pursuant to the authority of s. 3, Art. III of the State Constitution.(2) The Legislature…
Fla. Stat. § 11.02 Notice of special or local legislation or certain relief acts
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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 as provided in chapter 50 or circulated throughout the county or counties where the matter or thing to be affected by such legislation s…
Fla. Stat. § 11.021 Evidence of publication of notice
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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 filed or preserved with the bill in the Department of State in such manner as the Legislature shall provide.
Fla. Stat. § 11.03 Proof of publication of notice
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(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 shall not be exclusive:STATE OF FLORIDACOUNTY OF Before the undersigned authority personally appeared , who on oath does so…
Fla. Stat. § 11.031 Official census
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(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 or district census shall be effective for any purposes other than to ascertain the population …
Fla. Stat. § 11.0431 Legislative records; intent of legislation; exemption from public disclosure
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(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 Representatives received in connection with the official business of the Legislature as provided for by the constitution of this state. To that end, …
Fla. Stat. § 11.044 Legislative intent and purpose
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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 for the redress of grievances and to express freely their opinions on legislative action. Further, the Legislatur…
Fla. Stat. § 11.045 Lobbying before the Legislature; registration and reporting; exemptions; penalties
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(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 conduct of lobbyists.(b) “Compensation” means a payment, distribution, loan, advance, reimbursemen…
Fla. Stat. § 11.0451 Requirements for reinstitution of lobbyist registration after felony conviction
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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 released from incarceration and any postconviction supervision, and has paid all court costs and court-ordered restitution; and(2) Has had…
Fla. Stat. § 11.0455 Electronic filing of compensation reports and other information
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(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 reporting period.(2) Each lobbying firm that is required to file reports with the Office of Legislative Se…
Fla. Stat. § 11.047 Contingency fees; prohibitions; penalties
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(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, or other outcome of any specific legislative action.(2) No person may, in whole or in part, pay, give, …
Fla. Stat. § 11.061 State, state university, and community college employee lobbyists; registration; recording attendance; penalty; exemptions
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(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, defeat, or modification of any legislation by personal appearance or attendance before the House of Represent…
Fla. Stat. § 11.062 Use of state funds for lobbying prohibited; penalty
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(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 be used by any state employee or other person for lobbying purposes, which shall include the cost fo…
Fla. Stat. § 11.065 Claims against state; limitations; notice
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(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 this time of limitation shall be void and unenforceable.(2) All relief acts of the Legislature shall be for payment in full. No fu…
Fla. Stat. § 11.066 Suits seeking monetary damages against the state or its agencies; payment of judgments; appropriations required
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(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 and means money allocated for a specific purpose by the Legislature by law in a general appropriations act or a special appropriations act.(2) …
Fla. Stat. § 11.07 Method of enrolling bills, etc
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(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 or the Clerk of the House of Representatives, accordingly as the bills or joint resolutions may have originated in the Senate or …
Fla. Stat. § 11.111 Continuance of certain causes for term of Legislature and period of time prior and subsequent thereto and committee workdays
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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 any session of the Legislature and for a period of time 15 days prior to any session of the Legislature and …
Fla. Stat. § 11.12 Salary, subsistence, and mileage of members and employees; expenses authorized by resolution; appropriation; preaudit
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(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 by law. The Chief Financial Officer may pay the compensation of employees of the Legislature, together with reimbursement fo…
Fla. Stat. § 11.13 Compensation of members
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(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 Speaker of the House of Representatives, $25,000 each.2. All other members of the Senate and House of Representa…
Fla. Stat. § 11.131 Monetary supplements prohibited
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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 salary supplement or as an expense allowance or as reimbursement for expenses, are hereby repealed. This act shall not be construed to …
Fla. Stat. § 11.135 Legislative committees, units, and offices; expenditures
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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 agencies of government as expressed in chapter 216; and no power shall rest in the Executive Office of the Governor or …
Fla. Stat. § 11.143 Standing or select committees; powers
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(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 the purpose of submitting information to it. Each such committee is authorized to maintain a continuou…
Fla. Stat. § 11.1465 Services provided to Legislature
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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 of legislation for individual members and committees.(2) Review of legislation and drafti…
Fla. Stat. § 11.147 Office of Legislative Services
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(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 Speaker of the House of Representatives, shall provide support services that are determined by the President of the Senate and t…
Fla. Stat. § 11.151 Annual legislative appropriation to contingency fund for use of President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives
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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 Representatives, which amounts shall be set aside annually from moneys appropriated for legislative expense. These funds shall be …
Fla. Stat. § 11.241 Permanent statutory revision plan created
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There is created a permanent statutory revision plan to be implemented and maintained under the supervision of the Office of Legislative Services.
Fla. Stat. § 11.242 Powers, duties, and functions as to statutory revision
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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 conduct a systematic and continuing study of the statutes and laws of this state for the purpose of reducing their n…
Fla. Stat. § 11.2421 Florida Statutes 2024 adopted
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The accompanying revision, consolidation, and compilation of the public statutes of 2023 of a general and permanent nature, excepting tables, rules, indexes, and other related matter contained therein, prepared by the Office of Legislative Services under the provisions of s. 11.2…
Fla. Stat. § 11.2422 Statutes repealed
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Every statute of a general and permanent nature enacted by the State or by the Territory of Florida at or prior to the 2023 regular legislative session, and every part of such statute, not included in Florida Statutes 2024, as adopted by s. 11.2421, as amended, or recognized and …
Fla. Stat. § 11.2423 Laws or statutes not repealed
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(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, and, for the purpose of this saving from repeal any statute of the following classes shall be taken to be included in such ex…
Fla. Stat. § 11.2424 Laws not repealed
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Laws enacted at the November 6-9, 2023, special session through the 2024 regular session are not repealed by the adoption and enactment of the Florida Statutes 2024 by s. 11.2421, as amended, but shall have full effect as if enacted after its said adoption and enactment.
Fla. Stat. § 11.2425 Rights reserved under repealed statutes
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The repeal of any statute by the adoption and enactment of Florida Statutes 2024, by s. 11.2421, as amended, shall not affect any right accrued before such repeal or any civil remedy where a suit is pending.
Fla. Stat. § 11.2427 Conflict of laws
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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 relating to crimes, the latter shall prevail.
Fla. Stat. § 11.243 Publishing Florida Statutes; price, sale
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(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 within the revision system, as promptly after the adjournment of the legislative session as possible.(2) All co…
Fla. Stat. § 11.249 Commissioners to the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
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(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, together with any residents of the state who because of long service in the cause of the uni…
Fla. Stat. § 11.25 Salaries and expenditures not subject to control of executive agencies
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(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 be groups of employees employed by the Legislature to perform such services as may be provided by law, by rul…
Fla. Stat. § 11.26 Legislative employees; employment restrictions
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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 contents or nature of any request for services made by any member of the Legislature, except with the consent of the…
Fla. Stat. § 11.40 Legislative Auditing Committee
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(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 by the Auditor General or the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, and, in conn…
Fla. Stat. § 11.42 The Auditor General
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(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 be appointed to office to serve at the pleasure of the Legislature, by a majority vote of the members of the Legislative Aud…
Fla. Stat. § 11.45 Definitions; duties; authorities; reports; rules
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(1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in ss. 11.40-11.51, the term:(a) “Abuse” means behavior that is deficient or improper when compared with behavior that a prudent person would consider a reasonable and necessary operational practice given the facts and circumstances. The term includes the…
Fla. Stat. § 11.47 Penalties; failure to make a proper audit or examination; making a false report; failure to produce documents or information
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(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 enter into their public records sufficient information for proper audit or examination, and shall make the …
Fla. Stat. § 11.51 Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability
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(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 examination, the designated representative of the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountab…
Fla. Stat. § 11.52 Implementation of enacted legislation
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Each state agency shall provide the Legislature and the Executive Office of the Governor with information about the status of implementation of recently enacted legislation. The implementation status must be provided 90 days following the effective date of the legislation and upd…
Fla. Stat. § 11.62 Legislative review of proposed regulation of unregulated functions
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(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 state unless the regulation is necessary to protect the public health, safety, or welfare from significant and discernib…
Fla. Stat. § 11.90 Legislative Budget Commission
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(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 of seven members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate and seven members of the House of Repres…
Fla. Stat. § 11.9005 Government Efficiency Task Force
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(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 force shall be composed of 15 members. Five members shall be appointed by the President of the Senate, five members shall be …
Fla. Stat. § 11.93 Short title
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Sections 11.93-11.9352 may be cited as the “Article V Constitutional Convention Act.”
Fla. Stat. § 11.931 Applicability
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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.
Fla. Stat. § 11.932 Definitions
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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 a convention called for by the states under Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the…
Fla. Stat. § 11.933 Qualifications of delegates and alternate delegates
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(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 state.(c) Not be registered or required to be registered as a lobbyist under the laws of this state.(2) A person may not be…