(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 the state planning and budgeting system. Unless otherwise provided by law or decided by unanimous agreement of the principals of the conference, all official information developed by the conference shall be based on the assumption that current law and current administrative practices will remain in effect throughout the period for which the official information is to be used. The official information developed by each consensus estimating conference shall include forecasts for a period of at least 10 years, unless the principals of the conference unanimously agree otherwise.
(2) Whenever an estimating conference is convened, an official estimate does not exist until a new consensus is reached.
(3) The official information developed by the Economic Estimating Conference and the official information developed by the Demographic Estimating Conference shall be used by all other consensus estimating conferences in developing their official information.
(4) Consensus estimating conferences are within the legislative branch. The membership of each consensus estimating conference consists of principals and participants.
(a) A person designated by law as a principal may preside over conference sessions, convene conference sessions, request information, specify topics to be included on the conference agenda, agree or withhold agreement on whether information is to be official information of the conference, release official information of the conference, interpret official information of the conference, and monitor errors in official information of the conference. The responsibility of presiding over sessions of the conference shall be rotated among the principals.
(b) A participant is any person who is invited to participate in the consensus estimating conference by a principal. A participant shall, at the request of any principal before or during any session of the conference, develop alternative forecasts, collect and supply data, perform analyses, or provide other information needed by the conference. The conference shall consider information provided by participants in developing its official information.
(c) The principals of each conference shall be professional staff of the Executive Office of the Governor designated by the Governor, the coordinator of the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, professional staff of the Senate designated by the President of the Senate, and professional staff of the House of Representatives designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The coordinator of the Office of Economic and Demographic Research may designate other professional staff within that office to act as principals on the conferences.
(5) All sessions and meetings of a consensus estimating conference shall be open to the public. The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, jointly, shall be the sole judge for the interpretation, implementation, and enforcement of this subsection.
History.—s. 2, ch. 85-26; s. 15, ch. 2000-371; s. 22, ch. 2005-152; s. 27, ch. 2006-122.
Structure Florida Statutes
Title XIV - Taxation and Finance
Chapter 216 - Planning and Budgeting
216.0113 - Preferred Pricing Clauses in State Contracts; Compliance Required.
216.012 - Long-Range Financial Outlook.
216.013 - Long-Range Program Plan.
216.015 - Capital Facilities Planning and Budgeting Process.
216.0152 - Inventory of State-Owned Facilities or State-Occupied Facilities.
216.0153 - Comprehensive State-Owned Real Property System.
216.0158 - Assessment of Facility Needs.
216.016 - Evaluation of Plans; Determination of Financing Method.
216.023 - Legislative Budget Requests to Be Furnished to Legislature by Agencies.
216.0236 - Agency Fees for Regulatory Services or Oversight; Criteria.
216.031 - Target Budget Request.
216.043 - Budgets for Fixed Capital Outlay.
216.044 - Budget Evaluation by Department of Management Services.
216.052 - Community Budget Requests; Appropriations.
216.053 - Summary Information in the General Appropriations Act; Construction of Such Information.
216.065 - Fiscal Impact Statements on Actions Affecting the Budget.
216.071 - Reports of Legislature.
216.081 - Data on Legislative and Judicial Branch Expenses.
216.103 - Agencies Receiving Federal Funds; Designation of Coordinating Official; Duties.
216.121 - Information to Be Furnished to the Executive Office of the Governor.
216.131 - Public Hearings on Legislative Budgets.
216.133 - Definitions; Ss. 216.133-216.138.
216.134 - Consensus Estimating Conferences; General Provisions.
216.135 - Use of Official Information by State Agencies and the Judicial Branch.
216.136 - Consensus Estimating Conferences; Duties and Principals.
216.137 - Sessions of Consensus Estimating Conferences; Workpapers.
216.138 - Authority to Request Additional Analysis of Legislative Proposals.
216.141 - Budget System Procedures; Planning and Programming by State Agencies.
216.151 - Duties of the Executive Office of the Governor.
216.162 - Governor’s Recommended Budget to Be Furnished Legislature; Copies to Members.
216.164 - Governor’s Recommended Budget; Supporting Information.
216.165 - Governor’s Recommended Revenues.
216.166 - Governor’s Recommended Revenues; Supporting Information.
216.167 - Governor’s Recommendations.
216.168 - Governor’s Amended Revenue or Budget Recommendations; Optional and Mandatory.
216.172 - Meetings of Legislative Appropriations Committees.
216.178 - General Appropriations Act; Format; Procedure.
216.179 - Reinstatement of Vetoed Appropriations by Administrative Means Prohibited.
216.181 - Approved Budgets for Operations and Fixed Capital Outlay.
216.1811 - Approved Operating Budgets and Appropriations for the Legislative Branch.
216.1815 - Agency Incentive and Savings Program.
216.182 - Approval of Fixed Capital Outlay Program Plan.
216.1826 - Activity-Based Planning and Budgeting.
216.1827 - Requirements for Performance Measures and Standards.
216.192 - Release of Appropriations; Revision of Budgets.
216.195 - Impoundment of Funds; Restricted.
216.201 - Services of Executive Office of the Governor to Be Available to Legislature.
216.212 - Budgets for Federal Funds; Restrictions on Expenditure of Federal Funds.
216.216 - Court Settlement Funds Negotiated by the State.
216.222 - Budget Stabilization Fund; Criteria for Withdrawing Moneys.
216.231 - Release of Certain Classified Appropriations.
216.241 - Initiation or Commencement of New Programs; Approval; Expenditure of Certain Revenues.
216.251 - Salary Appropriations; Limitations.
216.262 - Authorized Positions.
216.272 - Working Capital Trust Funds.
216.273 - Administered Funds Trust Fund.
216.292 - Appropriations Nontransferable; Exceptions.
216.301 - Appropriations; Undisbursed Balances.
216.311 - Unauthorized Contracts in Excess of Appropriations; Penalty.
216.313 - Contract Appropriation; Requirements.
216.321 - Construction of Chapter 216 as Unauthorized Expenditures and Disbursements.
216.345 - Professional or Other Organization Membership Dues; Payment.
216.347 - Disbursement of Grants and AIDS Appropriations for Lobbying Prohibited.
216.348 - Fixed Capital Outlay Grants and AIDS Appropriations to Certain Nonprofit Entities.