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Special District
Performance Measures & Standards

On April 26, 2024, Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 7013 into law with an effective date of July 1, 2024. The bill mandates that all Florida special districts (including Hillsborough County special dependent districts) shall establish goals and objectives for each program and activity undertaken by the district, as well as performance measures and standards to determine if the district’s goals and objectives are being achieved. By December 1st of each year (starting in 2024), each special district must publish an annual report on the district website describing the goals and objectives achieved by the district, as well as the performance measures and standards used by the district to make this determination.

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(Actual statutory language)

189.0694 Special districts; performance measures and standards.—
(1) Beginning October 1, 2024, or by the end of the first full fiscal year after its creation, whichever is later, each special district must establish goals and objectives for each program and activity undertaken by the district, as well as performance measures and standards to determine if the district’s goals and objectives are being achieved.
(2) By December 1 of each year thereafter, each special district must publish an annual report on the district’s website describing:
(a) The goals and objectives achieved by the district, as well as the performance measures and standards used by the district to make this determination.
(b) Any goals or objectives the district failed to achieve.
History. – s. 7, ch. 2024-136.

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