Florida Florida Statutes

§ 216.065 — Fiscal impact statements on actions affecting the budget

FS § 216.065Ch. 216

Statute text

In addition to the applicable requirements of chapter 120, before the Governor, or Governor and Cabinet as a body, performing any constitutional or statutory duty, or before any state agency or statutorily authorized entity takes any final action that will affect revenues, require a request for an increased or new appropriation in the following 3 fiscal years, or transfer current year funds, it shall first provide the joint Legislative Budget Commission and the legislative appropriations committees with a fiscal impact statement that details the effects of such action on the budget. The fiscal impact statement must specify the estimated budget and revenue impacts for the current year and the 2 subsequent fiscal years at the same level of detail required to support a legislative budget reques "Section">216.053 Summary information in the General Appropriations Act; construction of such information.—(1) For informational purposes only, the General Appropriations Act shall contain summary information that covers specific appropriations and summarizes program areas.

(2)The purpose of the summary information is to help the public understand those budgetary decisions made by the Legislature and contained in the General Appropriations Act.

(3)Summary information does not operate to further change, earmark, or restrict specific appropriations made in the General Appropriations Act, does not constitute specific appropriations, and is not subject to the Governor's line-item veto.

(4)In drafting the General Appropriations Act, the Legislature shall ensure that all specific appropriations are displayed so as not to impede the Governor's authority under the State Constitution to line-item veto specific appropriations.

Legislative history

s. 45, ch. 92-142; s. 10, ch. 94-249; s. 18, ch. 2005-152.