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Introduced Session

An act relating to state planning and budgeting; reenacting and amending s. 216.011, F.S.; deleting the definitions of the terms “disincentive” and “incentive”; revising the definition of the term “fixed capital outlay”; amending s. 216.013, F.S.; revising the purpose of long-range program plans; requiring that such plans be based on statutorily established policies and driven by priorities and outcomes to achieve certain goals, objectives, and policies; requiring that such plans provide the framework for development of legislative budget requests; requiring that such plans identify specified performance measures, trends and conditions relevant to the performance measures and state goals, and agency and judicial programs that implement statutorily established policy; requiring that such plans include certain information regarding the implementation status of enacted laws; requiring that such information also include laws enacted in specified years; requiring that the implementation status include specified information; requiring that long-range program plans cover a specified timeframe and remain in effect until replaced or adjusted as provided by specified provisions; deleting a requirement that written notice be provided to the Governor and Legislature upon the publishing of such plans on the agency or judicial branch website; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch annually, by a specified date, to submit their long range program plans to the Legislative Budget Commission for approval; providing that if a state agency or the judicial branch receives a certain notification of failure to comply, such agency or the judicial branch is prohibited from submitting amendments to or otherwise making changes to its approved budget for certain expenditures until compliance is achieved; deleting obsolete language; amending s. 216.023, F.S.; requiring state agencies, the judicial branch, and the Division of Administrative Hearings to submit legislative budget requests before a specified date in each odd-numbered year and by a specified date in each even-numbered year; deleting provisions relating to total accountability measures and reductions in allocations; making a technical change; amending ss. 216.163, 216.177, and 216.181, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; repealing ss. 216.1815 and 216.1826, F.S., relating to the agency incentive and savings program and activity-based planning and budgeting, respectively; amending s. 216.1827, F.S.; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch to maintain performance measures, outcomes, and standards; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch to adopt specified and applicable performance measures, outcomes, and standards; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch to develop and adopt a certain number of specified performance measures, outcomes, and standards; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch to consider specified factors when developing such additional performance measures, outcomes, and standards; requiring state agencies to maintain justifications for and sources of data to be used for each performance measure adopted; requiring that the long-range program plans contain performance measures in specified forms, manner, and timeframes; requiring that such plans provide specified information and data; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch to submit performance measures, outcomes, standards, and certain information to the Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability upon request; requiring that certain performance measures be adopted by the Legislative Budget Commission; authorizing the submission of requests to delete or amend performance measures, outcomes, and standards to the Legislative Budget Commission; requiring that such request include the justification for the deletion, amendment, or addition; providing that such deletions, amendments, or additions are subject to review and approval by the Legislative Budget Commission; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch to make appropriate adjustments to their performance measures, outcomes, and standards to be consistent with certain enacted legislation; providing that state agencies and the judicial branch have a specified timeframe to make such adjustments; deleting obsolete language; requiring new state agencies created by the Legislature to establish initial performance measures, outcomes, and standards that are subject to review and approval by the Legislative Budget Commission; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch to submit to the Legislative Budget Commission new performance measures and specified information by a specified date; providing for the scheduled repeal of such provision; amending s. 216.262, F.S.; providing that if the actual inmate population of the Department of Corrections exceeds inmate population projections of the most recently adopted forecast published by the Criminal Justice Estimating Conference for the current fiscal year by specified percentages, the Executive Office of the Governor shall immediately notify such estimating conference to convene and revise the estimates; abrogating the scheduled repeal of such provisions; amending s. 216.292, F.S.; prohibiting appropriations from being transferred between state agencies unless specifically authorized by the General Appropriations Act or as otherwise provided by law; authorizing the Executive Office of the Governor to transfer funds within and between state agencies for a specified purpose; providing that such transfers and adjustments are subject to certain notice, review, and objections; deleting obsolete language; abrogating the scheduled repeal of a provision; amending s. 20.055, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending ss. 121.021 and 121.051, F.S.; conforming cross-references; amending s. 186.021, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 420.0003, F.S.; revising that a certain long-range plan is from the Florida Housing Finance Corporation and not from the Department of Commerce; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 420.511, F.S.; revising references to “long-range program plan” as “long-range plan”; deleting a requirement that such plan be developed in coordination with the Department of Commerce; deleting a provision relating to the Secretary of Commerce, or his or her designee, serving as the Florida Housing Finance Corporation’s liaison for a specified purpose; amending ss. 489.145, 985.619 and 1002.37, F.S.; conforming cross-references; reenacting s. 402.56(5)(d), F.S., relating to the duty of the Children and Youth Cabinet to design and implement a long-range program plan, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 216.013, F.S., in a reference thereto; providing an effective date.

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Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198) SB 2502 (Ch. 2025-199) (on 06/16/2025)

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