FL S0432

Creates section 112.327 requiring persons to register as lobbyists with community redevelopment agencies before lobbying, with annual registration fees not to exceed $40 per principal and mandatory disclosure of name, business address, principals represented, and financial relationships with agency officials.

Mandates ethics training of 4 hours annually for community redevelopment agency commissioners beginning October 1, 2018, covering the State Constitution, Code of Ethics, and public records and meetings laws.

Expands the definition of "blighted area" to include unemployment rates, poverty rates, foreclosure rates, and infant mortality rates higher than the remainder of the county or municipality, and removes provisions allowing designation with agreement of all taxing authorities.

Requires community redevelopment agencies to adopt annual budgets with administrative expenses capped at 18 percent of total budget and to submit annual reports by March 31 each year detailing audits, project performance, expenditures, and progress toward plan goals.

Creates procedures to declare community redevelopment agencies "inactive" if they report no revenues, expenditures, or debt for 3 consecutive fiscal years, limiting their expenditures to bond debt service without local government consent, and requires the Department of Economic Opportunity to maintain a list of inactive agencies.