Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 996
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Albritton) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of section
    6  403.70605, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         403.70605 Solid waste collection services in competition
    8  with private companies.—
    9         (3) DISPLACEMENT OF PRIVATE WASTE COMPANIES.—
   10         (c) Following the final public hearing held under paragraph
   11  (b), but not later than 1 year after the hearing, the local
   12  government may proceed to take those measures necessary to
   13  provide the service. The A local government shall provide 3
   14  years’ notice to the a private company before it engages in the
   15  actual provision of the service that displaces the company. At
   16  the end of the 3-year notice period As an alternative to
   17  delaying displacement 3 years, the a local government shall may
   18  pay the a displaced company an amount equal to the company’s
   19  preceding 18 15 months’ gross receipts for the displaced service
   20  in the displacement area. The 3-year notice period shall lapse
   21  as to any private company being displaced when the company
   22  ceases to provide service within the displacement area. Nothing
   23  in this paragraph prohibits the local government and the company
   24  from voluntarily negotiating a different notice period or amount
   25  of compensation.
   26         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2020.
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   29  And the title is amended as follows:
   30         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   31  and insert:
   32                        A bill to be entitled                      
   33         An act relating to displacement of private waste
   34         companies; amending s. 403.70605, F.S.; requiring a
   35         local government to pay a specified amount of
   36         compensation to a displaced private waste company at
   37         the end of a specified notice period; removing a
   38         provision authorizing a local government to pay a
   39         specified amount of compensation to a private waste
   40         company as an alternative to delaying displacement for
   41         a specified period; removing a provision authorizing a
   42         local government and a private waste company to
   43         negotiate such compensation and notice period;
   44         providing an effective date.