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An act relating to long-range program plans; amending s. 216.013, F.S.; revising the purpose of long-range program plans; requiring that plans of state agencies be based on statutorily established policies and driven by priorities and outcomes to achieve certain goals, objectives, and policies; requiring that the plans of the judicial branch be policy based, priority driven, accountable, and developed through careful examination and justification of programs and activities; requiring that such plans provide the framework for development of legislative budget requests; requiring that plans identify specified performance measures, trends and conditions relevant to the performance measures and state goals, agency programs implementing statutorily established policies, and the judicial branch programs implementing state 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 information include specified information; requiring that long-range program plans 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. 216.1827, F.S.; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch to maintain performance measures, outcomes, and standards; requiring state agencies to adopt specified and applicable performance measures, outcomes, and standards; requiring state agencies to develop and adopt a certain number of additional specified performance measures, outcomes, and standards; requiring state agencies to consider specified factors when developing such additional performance measures, outcomes, and standards; requiring the judicial branch to adopt certain performance measures, outcomes, and standards established by the Supreme Court; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch 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 a specified form, manner, and timeframe; 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 requests 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, outcomes, and standards and specified information by a specified date; providing for the scheduled repeal of such provision; amending s. 20.055, F.S.; conforming provisions to changes made by the act; amending s. 186.021, F.S.; revising requirements for state agencies’ long-range program plans; amending s. 420.0003, F.S.; providing 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.; replacing references to a “long-range program plan” with references to a “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; reenacting ss. 216.011(1)(ee) and 402.56(5)(d), F.S., relating to the definition of the term “long-range program plan” and the duty of the Children and Youth Cabinet to design and implement a long-range program plan, respectively, to incorporate the amendment made to s. 216.013, F.S., in references thereto; providing an effective date.

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Jason Brodeur (R)*, 

In Messages (on 02/19/2026)

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