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SB 7024

State Planning and Budgeting

2025 Regular Session

Modernizes Florida budgeting by tying 5-year program plans and performance measures to budget requests, tightening LBR timing, and enabling agency efficiency savings.

Died in Messages, companion bill(s) passed, see SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198) SB 2502 (Ch. 2025-199)
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Bill Summary · SB 7024

SB 7024 — State Planning and Budgeting (Florida)

Overview
SB 7024 revises provisions in chapter 216, Florida Statutes, governing the state budgeting and planning process. The goals are to clarify terminology, simplify the long-range program planning process, modernize the legislative budget request (LBR) process, and remove obsolete provisions. The bill does not, on its face, change state revenues or expenditures and would take effect July 1, 2025.

Status
- Introduced: March 17, 2025
- Senate: Favorably reported by Fiscal Policy; advanced to second reading; passed the Senate on April 9, 2025.
- House: Companion bills SB 2500 (Ch. 2025-198) and SB 2502 (Ch. 2025-199) passed.
- Final status: Died in Messages (Senate) on June 16, 2025; companion bills enacted (Ch. 2025-198, 199) in separate measures.

Purpose and Context
- Modernize and streamline state budgeting and planning requirements.
- Clarify terminology and align processes with current practice and efficiency reviews (e.g., Government Efficiency Task Force insights).
- Ensure a clearer linkage among long-range planning, performance accountability, and budget requests.

Key Provisions (Substantive Provisions Targeted by SB 7024)
- Long-Range Program Plans (Chapter 216)
- Agencies and the judicial branch must maintain five-year program plans tied to state goals, with annual revisions.
- Plans must reflect agency/judicial missions, goals, and objectives, and be posted on agency websites by Sept. 30 each year.
- SB 7024 seeks to simplify the process and clarify the posting/update requirements.

  • Performance Measures and Standards

    • Agencies and the judicial branch must maintain an accountability system with legislatively adopted performance measures.
    • Agencies must submit output and outcome measures, standards, and historical baseline data; the Legislature can modify measures as needed.

  • Legislative Budget Requests

    • Final legislative budget requests must be submitted in the form and manner prescribed by budget instructions no later than October 15 annually (subject to Governor/Chair agreement for alternate dates).

  • Agency Incentive and Savings Programs

    • Agencies can retain a portion of savings from efficiency initiatives, subject to plan submission and amendment approval by the Legislative Budget Commission (LBC).
    • Agencies must report how saved funds are used in the next LBR.

  • Activity-Based Planning and Budgeting

    • Agencies must work with the Governor’s Office and appropriation committees to reach consensus on services/activities for activity-based budgeting.
    • Requires alignment of outputs with activities; outcomes should be clearly delineated; unit costs for activities should be identifiable.

  • Authorized Positions

    • Overall authorized positions cannot exceed General Appropriations Act totals, with defined pathways to request additions (approval by the Governor/Chief Justice and LBC).
    • Includes existing exceptions related to emergency needs, federal grants, regulatory changes, and other specific circumstances.
    • Notably references the Department of Corrections' historical exception framework for adjustments.

Effective Date
- July 1, 2025.

Fiscal Impact
- The analysis and fiscal notes indicate no net change in state revenues or expenditures attributable to the bill itself.

Who is Affected
- State agencies and the judicial branch
- Executive Office of the Governor
- Legislative Budget Commission
- Potentially the Department of Corrections (through existing exception mechanisms)

Notes
- The bill’s substantive reforms were aligned with companion measures (SB 2500 and SB 2502) and overall legislative action in 2025.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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