Florida Senate - 2013 CS for SB 1080
By the Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability;
and Senator Evers
585-04017-13 20131080c1
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to public construction projects;
3 amending ss. 255.20 and 255.2575, F.S.; requiring
4 governmental entities to specify certain products
5 associated with public works projects; providing for
6 applicability; amending s. 255.257, F.S.; requiring
7 state agencies to use certain building rating systems
8 and building codes for each new construction and
9 renovation project; providing an effective date.
10
11 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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13 Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 255.20, Florida
14 Statutes, is amended to read:
15 255.20 Local bids and contracts for public construction
16 works; specification of state-produced lumber.—
17 (3)(a) All county officials, boards of county
18 commissioners, school boards, city councils, city commissioners,
19 and all other public officers of state boards or commissions
20 that are charged with the letting of contracts for public work,
21 for the construction of public bridges, buildings, and other
22 structures must specify in the contract lumber, timber, and
23 other forest products produced and manufactured in this state,
24 if wood is a component of the public work, and if such products
25 are available and their price, fitness, and quality are equal.
26 (b) This subsection does not apply:
27 1. To plywood specified for monolithic concrete forms.,
28 2. If the structural or service requirements for timber for
29 a particular job cannot be supplied by native species., or
30 3. If the construction is financed in whole or in part from
31 federal funds with the requirement that there be no restrictions
32 as to species or place of manufacture.
33 4. To transportation projects for which federal aid funds
34 are available.
35 Section 2. Subsection (4) is added to section 255.2575,
36 Florida Statutes, to read:
37 255.2575 Energy-efficient and sustainable buildings.—
38 (4)(a) All state agencies, county officials, boards of
39 county commissioners, school boards, city councils, city
40 commissioners, and all other public officers of state boards or
41 commissions that are charged with the letting of contracts for
42 public work, for the construction of public bridges, buildings,
43 and other structures must specify in the contract lumber,
44 timber, and other forest products produced and manufactured in
45 this state, if wood is a component of the public work, and if
46 such products are available and their price, fitness, and
47 quality are equal.
48 (b) This subsection does not apply:
49 1. To plywood specified for monolithic concrete forms.
50 2. If the structural or service requirements for timber for
51 a particular job cannot be supplied by native species.
52 3. If the construction is financed in whole or in part from
53 federal funds with the requirement that there be no restrictions
54 as to species or place of manufacture.
55 4. To transportation projects for which federal aid funds
56 are available.
57 Section 3. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
58 255.257, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
59 255.257 Energy management; buildings occupied by state
60 agencies.—
61 (4) ADOPTION OF STANDARDS.—
62 (a) Each All state agency agencies shall use adopt a
63 sustainable building rating system or use a national model green
64 building code for each all new building buildings and renovation
65 renovations to an existing building buildings.
66 Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.