Bill Text: FL S0694 | 2015 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Florida State Employees' Charitable Campaign
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-05-22 - Chapter No. 2015-61 [S0694 Detail]
Download: Florida-2015-S0694-Enrolled.html
ENROLLED 2015 Legislature SB 694 2015694er 1 2 An act relating to the Florida State Employees’ 3 Charitable Campaign; amending s. 110.181, F.S.; 4 providing an exception to the requirement that state 5 officers and employees designate a charitable 6 organization to receive their contributions from the 7 Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign; deleting 8 requirements for independent unaffiliated agencies, 9 international service agencies, and national agencies; 10 requiring the fiscal agent selected by the Department 11 of Management Services to distribute undesignated 12 funds in a specified manner; deleting the requirement 13 that a local steering committee be established in each 14 fiscal agent area; providing an effective date. 15 16 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 17 18 Section 1. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 110.181, 19 Florida Statutes, are amended to read: 20 110.181 Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign.— 21 (1) CREATION AND ORGANIZATION OF CAMPAIGN.— 22 (a) The Department of Management Services shall establish 23 and maintain, in coordination with the payroll system of the 24 Department of Financial Services, an annual Florida State 25 Employees’ Charitable Campaign. Except as provided in subsection 26 (5), this annual fundraising drive is the only authorized 27 charitable fundraising drive directed toward state employees 28 within work areas during work hours, and for which the state 29 will provide payroll deduction. 30 (b) State officers’ and employees’ contributions toward the 31 Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign must be entirely 32 voluntary. State officers and employees shallmustdesignate a 33 charitable organization to receive theirsuchcontributions 34 unless such contributions are collected as part of a campaign 35 event. 36 (c) Participation in the annual Florida State Employees’ 37 Charitable Campaign ismust belimited to any nonprofit 38 charitable organization thatwhichhas as its principal mission: 39 1. Public health and welfare; 40 2. Education; 41 3. Environmental restoration and conservation; 42 4. Civil and human rights; or 43 5.Any nonprofit charitable organization engaged inThe 44 relief of human suffering and poverty. 45(d) An independent unaffiliated agency must be a statewide46entity whose programs provide substantial, direct, hands-on47services that meet basic human or environmental needs and extend48throughout the year and throughout the state.49(e) An international service agency must have well-defined50programs that meet basic human or environmental needs outside51the United States with no duplication of existing programs.52(f) A national agency must demonstrate, through a well53defined program, direct services meeting basic human or54environmental needs which are readily available, being55administered, or providing a substantial direct benefit to the56residents of this state.57 (d)(g)The financial records of aAnynonprofit charitable 58 organization participating in the Florida State Employees’ 59 Charitable Campaign must behave its financial recordsaudited 60 annually by an independent public accountant whose examination 61 conforms to generally accepted accounting principles. 62 (e)(h)Organizations ineligible to participate in the 63 Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign include, but are 64 not limited to, the following: 65 1. Organizations whose fundraising and administrative 66 expenses exceed 25 percent, unless extraordinary circumstances 67 can be demonstrated. 68 2. Organizations whose activities contain an element that 69 is more than incidentally political in nature or whose 70 activities are primarily political, religious, professional, or 71 fraternal in nature. 72 3. Organizations thatwhichdiscriminate against any 73 individual or group on account of race, color, religion, sex, 74 national origin, age, handicap, or political affiliation. 75 4. Organizations not properly registered as a charitable 76 organization as required by the Solicitation of Contributions 77 Act, ss. 496.401-496.424. 78 5. Organizations thatwhichhave not received tax-exempt 79 status under s. 501(c)(3) of the,Internal Revenue Code. 80 (2) SELECTION OF FISCAL AGENTS; COST.— 81 (a) The Department of Management Services shall select 82 through the competitive procurement process a fiscal agent or 83 agents to receive, account for, and distribute charitable 84 contributions among participating charitable organizations. 85 (b) The fiscal agent shall withhold the reasonable costs 86 for conducting the campaign and for accounting and distribution 87 to the participating organizations and shall reimburse the 88 department the actual cost for coordinating the campaign in 89 accordance with the rules of the department. In any fiscal year 90 thatin whichthe Legislature specifically appropriates to the 91 department its total costs for coordinating the campaign from 92 the General Revenue Fund, the fiscal agent is not required to 93 reimburse such costs to the department under this subsection. 94 Otherwise, reimbursement will be the difference between actual 95 costs and the amount appropriated. 96 (c) The fiscal agent shall furnish the department and 97 participating charitable organizations a report of the 98 accounting and distribution activities. Records relating to 99 these activities mustshallbe open for inspection upon 100 reasonable notice and request. 101 (d) The fiscal agent shall distribute undesignated funds to 102 each participating organization in direct proportion to the 103 percentage of designated funds pledged to the organizationA104local steering committee shall be established in each fiscal105agent area to assist in conducting the campaign. The committee106shall be composed of state employees selected by the fiscal107agent from among recommendations provided by interested108participating organizations, if any, and approved by the109Statewide Steering Committee. 110 Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.