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Florida League of Cities

Local Government Reporting (Oppose – Mandate)

SB 1512 (Diaz) deletes an annual requirement for municipal budget officers to report specified budget information to the Office of Economic and Demographic Research. Instead, by October 15, 2020, each municipality must submit certain information, such as government spending, debt, public employee salary, and median income, to the Department of Finance Services. By January 15, 2021, DFS must establish an interactive website that allows residents to compare certain information about counties and municipalities and generate and distribute a local government report depicting the fiscal and economic status of each county and municipality and providing a comparative ranking with all other counties and municipalities in this state (Hughes)