| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to cost-benefit, return-on-investment, and |
| 3 | dynamic scoring techniques; creating s. 216.138, F.S.; |
| 4 | authorizing the President of the Senate or the Speaker of |
| 5 | the House of Representatives to request special impact |
| 6 | sessions of consensus estimating conferences to evaluate |
| 7 | proposed legislation based on specified techniques; |
| 8 | providing for the information used in the evaluations to |
| 9 | be available to the public unless otherwise exempt from |
| 10 | disclosure; requiring the Office of Economic and |
| 11 | Demographic Research to develop protocols and procedures |
| 12 | to be used by the consensus estimating conferences when |
| 13 | evaluating proposed legislation; establishing minimum |
| 14 | requirements; requiring a report to the Legislature; |
| 15 | requiring the use of the protocols and procedures |
| 16 | following legislative approval until such approval is |
| 17 | affirmatively revoked; amending s. 216.133, F.S.; |
| 18 | conforming a cross-reference to changes made by the act; |
| 19 | providing an effective date. |
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| 21 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 23 | Section 1. Section 216.138, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 24 | to read: |
| 25 | 216.138 Authority to request additional analysis of |
| 26 | legislation.-The President of the Senate or the Speaker of the |
| 27 | House of Representatives may request special impact sessions of |
| 28 | consensus estimating conferences to evaluate proposed |
| 29 | legislation based on tools and models not generally employed by |
| 30 | the conferences, including cost-benefit, return-on-investment, |
| 31 | or dynamic scoring techniques, when suitable and appropriate for |
| 32 | the legislation being evaluated. Unless exempt from s. |
| 33 | 119.07(1), information used to develop the analyses shall be |
| 34 | available to the public. |
| 35 | Section 2. The Office of Economic and Demographic |
| 36 | Research, acting in consultation with the principals of the |
| 37 | consensus estimating conferences and after receiving public |
| 38 | input, shall develop protocols and procedures necessary to |
| 39 | implement s. 216.138, Florida Statutes. At a minimum, the |
| 40 | protocols and procedures to be used for evaluating specific |
| 41 | proposed legislation shall include cost-benefit, return-on- |
| 42 | investment, and dynamic scoring techniques and may include |
| 43 | additional, appropriate economic techniques. Additionally, the |
| 44 | protocols and procedures must address the format for reporting |
| 45 | results and provide proposed linkages to the appropriations and |
| 46 | revenue forecasting processes, including any statutory changes |
| 47 | that may be needed. The linkages must be consistent with the |
| 48 | constitutional requirement for a balanced budget. The office |
| 49 | shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the |
| 50 | President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of |
| 51 | Representatives by December 1, 2010. Subject to approval by the |
| 52 | President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of |
| 53 | Representatives following the submission of the report, the |
| 54 | protocols and procedures shall be used to the extent feasible |
| 55 | for the analysis of specific proposed legislation by consensus |
| 56 | estimating conferences as provided in s. 216.138, Florida |
| 57 | Statutes, unless and until such approval is subsequently |
| 58 | affirmatively revoked. |
| 59 | Section 3. Section 216.133, Florida Statutes, is amended |
| 60 | to read: |
| 61 | 216.133 Definitions; ss. 216.133-216.138 216.133-216.137.- |
| 62 | As used in ss. 216.133-216.138 216.133-216.137: |
| 63 | (1) "Consensus estimating conference" includes the |
| 64 | Economic Estimating Conference, the Demographic Estimating |
| 65 | Conference, the Revenue Estimating Conference, the Education |
| 66 | Estimating Conference, the Criminal Justice Estimating |
| 67 | Conference, the Occupational Forecasting Conference, the Early |
| 68 | Learning Programs Estimating Conference, the Self-Insurance |
| 69 | Estimating Conference, the Florida Retirement System Actuarial |
| 70 | Assumption Conference, and the Social Services Estimating |
| 71 | Conference. |
| 72 | (2) "Official information" means the data, forecasts, |
| 73 | estimates, analyses, studies, and other information which the |
| 74 | principals of a consensus estimating conference unanimously |
| 75 | adopt for purposes of the state planning and budgeting system. |
| 76 | (3) "Consensus" means the unanimous consent of all of the |
| 77 | principals of a consensus estimating conference. |
| 78 | Section 4. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. |