Florida Senate - 2019                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/CS/HB 7103, 2nd Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Flores moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (155860) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 413 and 414
    5  insert:
    6         Section 9. Subsection (8) of section 420.502, Florida
    7  Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         420.502 Legislative findings.—It is hereby found and
    9  declared as follows:
   10         (8)(a) It is necessary to create new programs to stimulate
   11  the construction and substantial rehabilitation of rental
   12  housing for eligible persons and families.
   13         (b) It is necessary to create a state housing finance
   14  strategy to provide affordable workforce housing opportunities
   15  to essential services personnel in areas of critical state
   16  concern designated under s. 380.05, for which the Legislature
   17  has declared its intent to provide affordable housing, and areas
   18  that were designated as areas of critical state concern for at
   19  least 20 consecutive years before removal of the designation.
   20  The lack of affordable workforce housing has been exacerbated by
   21  the dwindling availability of developable land, environmental
   22  constraints, rising construction and insurance costs, and the
   23  shortage of lower-cost housing units. As this state’s population
   24  continues to grow, essential services personnel vital to the
   25  economies of areas of critical state concern are unable to live
   26  in the communities where they work, creating transportation
   27  congestion and hindering their quality of life and community
   28  engagement.
   29         Section 10. Present subsections (18) through (42) of
   30  section 420.503, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
   31  subsections (19) through (43), respectively, a new subsection
   32  (18) is added to that section, and subsection (15) of that
   33  section is amended, to read:
   34         420.503 Definitions.—As used in this part, the term:
   35         (15) “Elderly” means persons 62 years of age or older;
   36  however, this definition does not prohibit housing from being
   37  deemed housing for the elderly as defined in subsection (20)
   38  (19) if such housing otherwise meets the requirements of
   39  subsection (20) (19).
   40         (18) “Essential services personnel” means natural persons
   41  or families whose total annual household income is at or below
   42  120 percent of the area median income, adjusted for household
   43  size, and at least one of whom is employed as police or fire
   44  personnel, a child care worker, a teacher or other education
   45  personnel, health care personnel, a public employee, or a
   46  service worker.
   47         Section 11. Subsection (3) of section 420.5095, Florida
   48  Statutes, is amended to read:
   49         420.5095 Community Workforce Housing Innovation Pilot
   50  Program.—
   51         (3) For purposes of this section, the term:
   52         (a) “Workforce housing” means housing affordable to natural
   53  persons or families whose total annual household income does not
   54  exceed 140 percent of the area median income, adjusted for
   55  household size, or 150 percent of area median income, adjusted
   56  for household size, in areas of critical state concern
   57  designated under s. 380.05, for which the Legislature has
   58  declared its intent to provide affordable housing, and areas
   59  that were designated as areas of critical state concern for at
   60  least 20 consecutive years prior to removal of the designation.
   61         (b) “Essential services personnel” means persons in need of
   62  affordable housing who are employed in occupations or
   63  professions in which they are considered essential services
   64  personnel, as defined by each county and eligible municipality
   65  within its respective local housing assistance plan pursuant to
   66  s. 420.9075(3)(a).
   67         (c) “Public-private partnership” means any form of business
   68  entity that includes substantial involvement of at least one
   69  county, one municipality, or one public sector entity, such as a
   70  school district or other unit of local government in which the
   71  project is to be located, and at least one private sector for
   72  profit or not-for-profit business or charitable entity, and may
   73  be any form of business entity, including a joint venture or
   74  contractual agreement.
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   76  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   77  And the title is amended as follows:
   78         Between lines 493 and 494
   79  insert:
   80         amending s. 420.502, F.S.; revising legislative
   81         findings for a certain state housing finance strategy;
   82         amending s. 420.503, F.S.; conforming cross
   83         references; defining the term “essential services
   84         personnel”; amending s. 420.5095, F.S.; deleting the
   85         definition of the term “essential services personnel”;