Florida SB 964: Financial Disclosures

Bill Text

964 
Financial Disclosures 
2025-12-18T09:30:16Z 
Requiring reporting individuals and procurement employees to file annual reports listing certain gifts with the Commission on Ethics instead of with the required financial disclosure statement; requiring such individuals and employees who have left office or employment within a specified timeframe to file the annual report with the commission instead of at the same location as their financial disclosure statement; requiring reporting individuals and procurement employees to disclose the name, address, and affiliation of a person providing specified honorarium expenses with the commission instead of with the required financial disclosure statement, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 964 

 By Senator Wright 

 8-00912-26 2026964__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to financial disclosures; amending s. 
 3 112.3148, F.S.; requiring reporting individuals and 
 4 procurement employees to file annual reports listing 
 5 certain gifts with the Commission on Ethics instead of 
 6 with the required financial disclosure statement; 
 7 requiring such individuals and employees who have left 
 8 office or employment within a specified timeframe to 
 9 file the annual report with the commission instead of 
 10 at the same location as their financial disclosure 
 11 statement; amending s. 112.3149, F.S.; requiring 
 12 reporting individuals and procurement employees to 
 13 disclose the name, address, and affiliation of a 
 14 person providing specified honorarium expenses with 
 15 the commission instead of with the required financial 
 16 disclosure statement; requiring such individuals and 
 17 employees who have left office or employment within a 
 18 specified timeframe to file the annual statement with 
 19 the commission instead of at the same location as 
 20 their financial disclosure statement; providing an 
 21 effective date. 
 22 
 23 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 24 
 25 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subsection (6) of section 
 26 112.3148, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
 27 112.3148 Reporting and prohibited receipt of gifts by 
 28 individuals filing full or limited public disclosure of 
 29 financial interests and by procurement employees.— 
 30 (6) 
 31 (d) No later than July 1 of each year, each reporting 
 32 individual or procurement employee shall file a statement 
 33 listing each gift having a value in excess of $100 received by 
 34 the reporting individual or procurement employee, either 
 35 directly or indirectly, from a governmental entity or a direct 
 36 support organization specifically authorized by law to support a 
 37 governmental entity. The statement shall list the name of the 
 38 person providing the gift, a description of the gift, the date 
 39 or dates on which the gift was given, and the value of the total 
 40 gifts given during the calendar year for which the report is 
 41 made. The reporting individual or procurement employee shall 
 42 attach to the statement any report received by him or her in 
 43 accordance with paragraph (c), which report shall become a 
 44 public record when filed with the statement of the reporting 
 45 individual or procurement employee. The reporting individual or 
 46 procurement employee may explain any differences between the 
 47 report of the reporting individual or procurement employee and 
 48 the attached reports. The annual report filed by a reporting 
 49 individual shall be filed with the financial disclosure 
 50 statement required by either s. 8, Art. II of the State 
 51 Constitution or s. 112.3145, as applicable to the reporting 
 52 individual. The annual report filed by a procurement employee 
 53 shall be filed with the Commission on Ethics. The report filed 
 54 by a reporting individual or procurement employee who left 
 55 office or employment during the calendar year covered by the 
 56 report shall be filed with the Commission on Ethics by July 1 of 
 57 the year after leaving office or employment at the same location 
 58 as his or her final financial disclosure statement or, in the 
 59 case of a former procurement employee, with the Commission on 
 60 Ethics. 
 61 Section 2. Subsection (6) of section 112.3149, Florida 
 62 Statutes, is amended to read: 
 63 112.3149 Solicitation and disclosure of honoraria.— 
 64 (6) A reporting individual or procurement employee who 
 65 receives payment or provision of expenses related to any 
 66 honorarium event from a person who is prohibited by subsection 
 67 (4) from paying an honorarium to a reporting individual or 
 68 procurement employee shall publicly disclose on an annual 
 69 statement the name, address, and affiliation of the person 
 70 paying or providing the expenses; the amount of the honorarium 
 71 expenses; the date of the honorarium event; a description of the 
 72 expenses paid or provided on each day of the honorar