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The 2024 Florida Statutes (including 2025 Special Session C)

Title III
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH; COMMISSIONS
Chapter 11
LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATION, PROCEDURES, AND STAFFING
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F.S. 11.047
11.047 Contingency fees; prohibitions; penalties.—
(1) “Contingency fee” means a fee, bonus, commission, or nonmonetary benefit as compensation which is dependent or in any way contingent on the enactment, defeat, modification, or other outcome of any specific legislative action.
(2) No person may, in whole or in part, pay, give, or receive, or agree to pay, give, or receive, a contingency fee. However, this subsection does not apply to claims bills.
(3) Any person who violates this section commits a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. If such person is a lobbyist, the lobbyist shall forfeit any fee, bonus, commission, or profit received in violation of this section and is subject to the penalties set forth in s. 11.045. When the fee, bonus, commission, or profit is nonmonetary, the fair market value of the benefit shall be used in determining the amount to be forfeited. All forfeited benefits collected shall be deposited into the Legislative Lobbyist Registration Trust Fund.
(4) This section does not apply to any contract providing for compensation by contingency fee which is in existence on the date this act becomes a law and which does not provide for compensation by contingency fee for lobbying after December 31, 1993.
(5) Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit any salesperson engaging in legitimate state business on behalf of a company from receiving compensation or commission as part of a bona fide contractual arrangement with that company.
History.—s. 3, ch. 93-121.

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Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 11.047
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Total Results: 3

In Re: Judicial Circuit Assessment

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2023-12-21

Snippet: public hearings, and persons 112 See, e.g., §§ 47.011, 47.021, 910.03, Fla. Stat (2023).

Added to database: 2025-08-29 18:47:49

Brown v. NAGELHOUT

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 2012-03-15

Citation: 84 So. 3d 304, 37 Fla. L. Weekly Supp. 225, 2012 WL 851033, 2012 Fla. LEXIS 552

Snippet: should apply the plain language of sections 47.011, 47.021, and 47.051, Florida Statutes. Where there

Added to database: 2025-08-29 18:47:49

Central Truck Lines, Inc. v. Railroad Commission

Court: Supreme Court of Florida | Date Filed: 1933-04-13

Citation: 147 So. 590, 109 Fla. 395

Snippet: Beach 11:17 A. M. West-bound: Leave Daytona Beach 11:47 A. M. and arrive in Orlando at 2:13 P. M. After

Added to database: 2025-08-29 18:47:49