Florida SB 572: Property Appraisers

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Ethics for Public Officers and Employees 
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Revising the definition of the term “relative” to include foster parents and foster children; providing that specified provisions do not prohibit a board, council, commission, or collegial body from appointing, employing, promoting, or advancing elected public officials who are related to a leadership position on the same board, council, commission, or collegial body, etc. 
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 2 An act relating to ethics for public officers and 
 3 employees; amending s. 112.312, F.S.; revising the 
 4 definition of the term “relative” to include foster 
 5 parents and foster children; amending s. 112.3135, 
 6 F.S.; providing that specified provisions do not 
 7 prohibit a board, council, commission, or collegial 
 8 body from appointing, employing, promoting, or 
 9 advancing elected public officials who are related to 
 10 a leadership position on the same board, council, 
 11 commission, or collegial body; reenacting ss. 
 12 106.07(4)(a), 106.0702(4)(a), 348.0305, and 1001.421, 
 13 F.S., relating to a campaign treasurer’s reports of 
 14 campaign contributions; reports of campaign 
 15 contributions to candidates for a position on a 
 16 political party executive committee; ethical 
 17 requirements for officers, employees, and consultants 
 18 for the Greater Miami Expressway Agency; and gifts to 
 19 district school board members, respectively, to 
 20 incorporate the amendment made to s. 112.312, F.S., in 
 21 references thereto; reenacting ss. 28.35(1)(b), 
 22 288.012(6)(d), 288.8014(4), 288.9604(3)(a), 
 23 295.21(4)(d), 627.311(5)(m), 1002.33(24), 1002.83(9), 
 24 and 1012.23(2), F.S., relating to the executive 
 25 council of the Florida Clerks of Court Operations 
 26 Corporation; the senior managers and members of the 
 27 board of directors of the direct-support organization 
 28 of the State of Florida international offices; members 
 29 of the board of directors of Triumph Gulf Coast, Inc.; 
 30 the directors of the Florida Development Finance 
 31 Corporation; the board of directors of Florida Is For 
 32 Veterans, Inc.; senior managers and officers of joint 
 33 underwriters and joint insurers; charter school 
 34 personnel in schools operated by municipalities or 
 35 other public entities; members of early learning 
 36 coalitions; and prohibiting district school 
 37 superintendents and district school board members from 
 38 appointing or employing a relative, respectively, to 
 39 incorporate the amendment made to s. 112.3135, F.S., 
 40 in references thereto; providing an effective date. 
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 42 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
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 44 Section 1. Subsection (21) of section 112.312, Florida 
 45 Statutes, is amended to read: 
 46 112.312 Definitions.—As used in this part and for purposes 
 47 of the provisions of s. 8, Art. II of the State Constitution, 
 48 unless the context otherwise requires: 
 49 (21) “Relative,” unless otherwise specified in this part, 
 50 means an individual who is related to a public officer or 
 51 employee as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, 
 52 uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father 
 53 in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in 
 54 law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, 
 55 stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, half 
 56 sister, grandparent, great grandparent, grandchild, great 
 57 grandchild, step grandparent, step great grandparent, step 
 58 grandchild, or step great grandchild; an individual who, while 
 59 the public officer or employee was a minor, was his or her 
 60 legally recognized foster parent in the jurisdiction where the 
 61 relationship occurred or an individual who is a current or 
 62 former legally recognized foster child of the public officer or 
 63 employee in the jurisdiction where the relationship occurs or 
 64 occurred; a, person who is engaged to be married to the public 
 65 officer or employee or who otherwise holds himself or herself 
 66 out as or is generally known as the person whom the public 
 67 officer or employee intends to marry or with whom the public 
 68 officer or employee intends to form a household;, or any other 
 69 natural person having the same legal residence as the public 
 70 officer or employee. 
 71 Section 2. Paragraph (c) is added to subsection (2) of 
 72 section 112.3135, Florida Statutes, to read: 
 73 112.3135 Restriction on employment of relatives.— 
 74 (2) 
 75 (c) This subsection does not prohibit the board, council, 
 76 commission, or collegial body on which an elected public 
 77 official serves from appointing, employing, promoting, or 
 78 advancing a relative who is an elected public official serving 
 79 on the same board, council, commission, or collegial body to a 
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