(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 of the Legislature to allow agencies and the judicial branch to retain a portion of the savings produced by internally generated agency or judicial branch program efficiencies and cost reductions.
(2) To be eligible to retain funds, an agency or the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court must submit a plan and an associated request to amend its approved operating budget to the Legislative Budget Commission specifying:
(a) The modifications to approved programs resulting in efficiencies and cost savings;
(b) The amount and source of the funds and positions saved;
(c) The specific positions, rate, amounts, and sources of funds the agency or the judicial branch wishes to include in its incentive expenditures;
(d) How the agency or the judicial branch will meet the goals and objectives established in its long-range program plan;
(e) How the agency or the judicial branch will meet performance standards, including those in its long-range program plan; and
(f) Any other incentive expenditures which the agency or the judicial branch believes will enhance its performance.
(3) Notwithstanding the 14-day notice requirement contained in s. 216.177(2)(a), all plans and budget amendments submitted to the Legislative Budget Commission pursuant to this section shall be delivered at least 30 days prior to the date of the commission meeting at which the request will be considered.
(4) In determining the amount the agency or the judicial branch will be allowed to retain, the commission shall consider the actual savings projected for the current budget year and the annualized savings.
(5) The amount to be retained by the agency or the judicial branch shall be no less than 5 percent and no more than 25 percent of the annual savings and may be used by the agency or the judicial branch for salary increases or other expenditures specified in the agency’s or the judicial branch’s plan if the salary increases or other expenditures do not create a recurring cost to the state in excess of the recurring savings achieved by the agency or the judicial branch in the plan.
(6) Each agency or judicial branch allowed to retain funds pursuant to this section shall submit in its next legislative budget request a schedule showing how it used such funds.
History.—s. 8, ch. 2001-56; s. 32, 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.