(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 tools and models not generally employed by the consensus estimating conferences, including cost-benefit, return-on-investment, or dynamic scoring techniques, when suitable and appropriate for the legislative proposals being evaluated.
(2) Unless exempt from s. 119.07(1), information used to develop the analyses shall be available to the public. In addition, all meetings of a special impact 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.
(3) A special impact estimating conference shall consist of four principals: one person from the Executive Office of the Governor; the coordinator of the Office of Economic and Demographic Research, or his or her designee; one person from the professional staff of the Senate; and one person from the professional staff of the House of Representatives. Each principal shall have appropriate fiscal expertise in the subject matter of the legislative proposal. A separate special impact estimating conference may be appointed for each proposal.
(4) After the designation of the four principals, a special impact estimating conference shall convene to adopt official information relating to the proposal.
(a) A principal may invite any person to participate in a special impact estimating conference. Such person shall be designated as a participant. A participant shall, at the request of any principal before or during any meeting of a conference, collect and supply data, perform analyses, or provide other information needed by a conference.
(b) The principal from the Office of Economic and Demographic Research may convene any of the conferences established in s. 216.136 to reach a consensus on supplemental information required for the analysis of the proposed legislation.
(c) All official information of a special impact estimating conference shall be adopted by consensus of all of the principals of the conference. For the purposes of this section, the terms “official information” and “consensus” have the same meanings as provided in s. 216.133.
History.—s. 1, ch. 2010-101; s. 4, ch. 2011-76.
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.