Bill Text: FL S1312 | 2010 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Florida State Employees' Charitable Campaign [GPSC]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2010-04-30 - Died in Committee on Policy & Steering Committee on Ways and Means [S1312 Detail]
Download: Florida-2010-S1312-Introduced.html
Florida Senate - 2010 SB 1312 By Senator Wise 5-01293-10 20101312__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to the Florida State Employees’ 3 Charitable Campaign; amending s. 110.181, F.S.; 4 deleting the power of local steering committees to 5 direct the distribution of undesignated funds; 6 requiring such undesignated campaign funds to be 7 shared proportionally by the participating charitable 8 organizations based on the percentage of designations 9 in each area; providing an effective date. 10 11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 12 13 Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 110.181, Florida 14 Statutes, is amended to read: 15 110.181 Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign.— 16 (2) SELECTION OF FISCAL AGENTS; COST.— 17 (a) The Department of Management Services shall select 18 through the competitive procurement process a fiscal agent or 19 agents to receive, account for, and distribute charitable 20 contributions among participating charitable organizations. 21 (b) The fiscal agent shall withhold the reasonable costs 22 for conducting the campaign and for accounting and distribution 23 to the participating organizations and shall reimburse the 24 department the actual cost, not to exceed 1 percent of gross 25 pledges, for coordinating the campaign in accordance with the 26 rules of the department. In any fiscal year in which the 27 Legislature specifically appropriates to the department its 28 total costs for coordinating the campaign from the General 29 Revenue Fund, the fiscal agent is not required to reimburse such 30 costs to the department under this subsection. Otherwise, 31 reimbursement will be the difference between actual costs and 32 the amount appropriated. 33 (c) The fiscal agent shall furnish the department and 34 participating charitable organizations a report of the 35 accounting and distribution activities. Records relating to 36 these activities shall be open for inspection upon reasonable 37 notice and request. 38 (d) A local steering committee shall be established in each 39 fiscal agent area to assist in conducting the campaignand to40direct the distribution of undesignated funds remaining after41partial distribution pursuant to paragraph (e). The committee 42 shall be composed of state employees selected by the fiscal 43 agent from among recommendations provided by interested 44 participating organizations, if any, and approved by the 45 Statewide Steering Committee. 46 (e) Participating charitable organizationsthat provide47direct services in a local fiscal agent’s areashall receive the 48 same percentage of undesignated funds as the percentage of 49 designated funds they receive in the campaign. The payment of 50 each charity’s share of undesignated funds shall be distributed 51 in the same manner as the designations.The undesignated funds52remaining following allocation to these charitable organizations53shall be distributed by the local steering committee.54 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2010.