110.181 Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign.—

(1) CREATION AND ORGANIZATION OF CAMPAIGN.—

(a) The Department of Management Services shall establish and maintain, in coordination with the payroll system of the Department of Financial Services, an annual Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign. Except as provided in subsection (5), this annual fundraising drive is the only authorized charitable fundraising drive directed toward state employees within work areas during work hours, and for which the state will provide payroll deduction.

(b) State officers’ and employees’ contributions toward the Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign must be entirely voluntary. State officers and employees must designate a charitable organization to receive such contributions.

(c) Participation in the annual Florida State Employees’ Charitable Campaign must be limited to any nonprofit charitable organization which has as its principal mission:

1. Public health and welfare;
2. Education;
3. Environmental restoration and conservation;
4. Civil and human rights; or
5. Any nonprofit charitable organization engaged in the relief of human suffering and poverty.

(d) An independent unaffiliated agency must be a statewide entity whose programs provide substantial, direct, hands-on services that meet basic human or environmental needs and extend throughout the year and throughout the state.

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