Florida SB 1442: Long-range Program Plans

Bill Text

1442 
Long-range Program Plans 
2026-01-08T07:47:18Z 
Requiring that plans of state agencies be based on statutorily established policies and driven by priorities and outcomes to achieve certain goals, objectives, and policies; requiring that the plans of the judicial branch be policy based, priority driven, accountable, and developed through careful examination and justification of programs and activities; requiring that plans identify specified performance measures, trends and conditions relevant to the performance measures and state goals, agency programs implementing statutorily established policies, and the judicial branch programs implementing state policy, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2026 
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2026-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2026 SB 1442 

 By Senator Brodeur 

 10-01057C-26 20261442__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to long-range program plans; amending 
 3 s. 216.013, F.S.; revising the purpose of long-range 
 4 program plans; requiring that plans of state agencies 
 5 be based on statutorily established policies and 
 6 driven by priorities and outcomes to achieve certain 
 7 goals, objectives, and policies; requiring that the 
 8 plans of the judicial branch be policy based, priority 
 9 driven, accountable, and developed through careful 
 10 examination and justification of programs and 
 11 activities; requiring that such plans provide the 
 12 framework for development of legislative budget 
 13 requests; requiring that plans identify specified 
 14 performance measures, trends and conditions relevant 
 15 to the performance measures and state goals, agency 
 16 programs implementing statutorily established 
 17 policies, and the judicial branch programs 
 18 implementing state policy; requiring that such plans 
 19 include certain information regarding the 
 20 implementation status of enacted laws; requiring that 
 21 such information also include laws enacted in 
 22 specified years; requiring that the implementation 
 23 status information include specified information; 
 24 requiring that long-range program plans remain in 
 25 effect until replaced or adjusted as provided by 
 26 specified provisions; deleting a requirement that 
 27 written notice be provided to the Governor and 
 28 Legislature upon the publishing of such plans on the 
 29 agency or judicial branch website; requiring state 
 30 agencies and the judicial branch annually, by a 
 31 specified date, to submit their long-range program 
 32 plans to the Legislative Budget Commission for 
 33 approval; providing that if a state agency or the 
 34 judicial branch receives a certain notification of 
 35 failure to comply, such agency or the judicial branch 
 36 is prohibited from submitting amendments to or 
 37 otherwise making changes to its approved budget for 
 38 certain expenditures until compliance is achieved; 
 39 deleting obsolete language; amending s. 216.1827, 
 40 F.S.; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch 
 41 to maintain performance measures, outcomes, and 
 42 standards; requiring state agencies to adopt specified 
 43 and applicable performance measures, outcomes, and 
 44 standards; requiring state agencies to develop and 
 45 adopt a certain number of additional specified 
 46 performance measures, outcomes, and standards; 
 47 requiring state agencies to consider specified factors 
 48 when developing such additional performance measures, 
 49 outcomes, and standards; requiring the judicial branch 
 50 to adopt certain performance measures, outcomes, and 
 51 standards established by the Supreme Court; requiring 
 52 state agencies and the judicial branch to maintain 
 53 justifications for and sources of data to be used for 
 54 each performance measure adopted; requiring that the 
 55 long-range program plans contain performance measures 
 56 in a specified form, manner, and timeframe; requiring 
 57 that such plans provide specified information and 
 58 data; requiring state agencies and the judicial branch 
 59 to submit performance measures, outcomes, standards, 
 60 and certain information to the Office of Program 
 61 Policy Analysis and Government Accountability upon 
 62 request; requiring that certain performance measures 
 63 be adopted by the Legislative Budget Commission; 
 64 authorizing the submission of requests to delete or 
 65 amend performance measures, outcomes, and standards to 
 66 the Legislative Budget Commission; requiring that such 
 67 requests include the justification for the deletion, 
 68 amendment, or addition; providing that such deletions, 
 69 amendments, or additions are subject to review and 
 70 approval by the Legislative Budget Commission; 
 71 requiring state agencies and the judicial branch to 
 72 make appropriate adjustments to their performance 
 73 measures, outcomes, and standards to be consistent 
 74 with certain enacted legislation; providing that state 
 75 agencies and the judicial branch have a spe