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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title III
LEGISLATIVE BRANCH; COMMISSIONS
Chapter 11
LEGISLATIVE ORGANIZATION, PROCEDURES, AND STAFFING
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F.S. 11.062
11.062 Use of state funds for lobbying prohibited; penalty.
(1) No funds, exclusive of salaries, travel expenses, and per diem, appropriated to, or otherwise available for use by, any executive, judicial, or quasi-judicial department shall be used by any state employee or other person for lobbying purposes, which shall include the cost for publication and distribution of each publication used in lobbying; other printing; media; advertising, including production costs; postage; entertainment; and telephone and telegraph. Any state employee of any executive, judicial, or quasi-judicial department who violates the provisions of this section shall have deducted from her or his salary the amount of state moneys spent in violation of this section.
(2)(a) A department of the executive branch, a state university, a community college, or a water management district may not use public funds to retain a lobbyist to represent it before the legislative or executive branch. However, full-time employees of a department of the executive branch, a state university, a community college, or a water management district may register as lobbyists and represent that employer before the legislative or executive branch. Except as a full-time employee, a person may not accept any public funds from a department of the executive branch, a state university, a community college, or a water management district for lobbying.
(b) A department of the executive branch, a state university, a community college, or a water management district that violates this subsection may be prohibited from lobbying the legislative or executive branch for a period not exceeding 2 years.
(c) This subsection shall not be construed to prohibit a department of the executive branch, a state university, a community college, or a water management district from retaining a lobbyist for purposes of representing the entity before the executive or legislative branch of the Federal Government. Further, any person so retained is not subject to the prohibitions of this subsection.
(d) A person who accepts public funds as compensation for lobbying in violation of this subsection may be prohibited from registering to lobby before the legislative or executive branch for a period not exceeding 2 years.
(e) A person may file a written complaint with the Commission on Ethics alleging a violation of this subsection. The commission shall investigate and report its finding to the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Governor and Cabinet. Based upon the report of the Commission on Ethics or upon its own finding that a violation of this subsection has occurred, a house of the Legislature may discipline the violator according to its rules, and the Governor or the Governor and Cabinet, as applicable, may prohibit the violator from lobbying before the executive branch for a period not exceeding 2 years after the date of the formal determination of a violation. The Commission on Ethics shall adopt rules necessary to conduct investigations under this paragraph.
History.s. 2, ch. 74-161; s. 4, ch. 93-121; s. 10, ch. 95-147.

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Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases Citing Statute 11.062

Total Results: 9

Coral Imaging Services v. Geico Indem. Ins.

955 So. 2d 11, 2006 Fla. App. LEXIS 16469, 2006 WL 2819614

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Oct 4, 2006 | Docket: 1659265

Cited 3 times | Published

g., Art. III, § 8(a), Fla. Const.; Fla. Stat. § 11.062(2)(a); § 11.066(4); § 11.70(3)(d); § 14.29(3)(b)

Ross v. Bank South, N.A.

885 F.2d 723

Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit | Filed: Sep 18, 1989 | Docket: 66248338

Cited 3 times | Published

of 1933, 15 U.S.C. § 77q(a). . Under Ala.Code § 11-62-1 et seq., public corporations may be organized

Syntex Corp. v. Charter Co. (In Re Charter Co.)

81 B.R. 90, 1987 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 11833, 1987 WL 25261

District Court, M.D. Florida | Filed: Nov 24, 1987 | Docket: 1402806

Cited 1 times | Published

(construing Former Rule 805); 14 Collier on Bankruptcy § 11-62-5 (14th ed. 1977) (construing Former Rule 11-62)

Florida Department of Financial Services v. Capital Collateral Regional Counsel-Middle Region

969 So. 2d 527, 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 18685, 2007 WL 4145459

District Court of Appeal of Florida | Filed: Nov 26, 2007 | Docket: 64853147

Published

inappropriately paid by them to lobbyists in violation of section 11.062, Florida Statutes.1 OFI’s recommendation was

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Feb 9, 2000 | Docket: 3259025

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agencies, among them section 11.062, Florida Statutes. The opinion notes that section 11.062, Florida Statutes

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Apr 6, 1998 | Docket: 3255326

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subject to the lobbying restrictions contained in section 11.062(2)(a), Florida Statutes.6 Members of the school

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Mar 3, 1998 | Docket: 3258193

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the state or that conflict with a state law. Section 11.062(1), Florida Statutes, allows the use of state

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Nov 26, 1997 | Docket: 3258315

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the following question: Do the provisions of section 11.062(2), Florida Statutes, restricting the use of

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Florida Attorney General Reports | Filed: Sep 8, 1997 | Docket: 3257625

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how funds it receives will be appropriated.7 Section 11.062, Florida Statutes, in pertinent part, provides: