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11  Representative(s) King offered the following:

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13         Amendment to Amendment (321719) 

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16  and insert in lieu thereof:

17         Section 24.  Effective January 1, 1999, paragraph (d)

18  is added to subsection (2) of section 20.18, Florida Statutes,

19  and subsection (7) is added to said section, to read:

20         20.18  Department of Community Affairs.--There is

21  created a Department of Community Affairs.

22         (2)  The following units of the Department of Community

23  Affairs are established:

24         (d)  Division of Factory-built Housing.

25         (7)  The Department of Community Affairs shall be the

26  agency responsible for ensuring that there is adequate

27  affordable housing in this state through the use of

28  factory-built homes, that the federal code on mobile homes is

29  strictly observed by manufacturers, and that the state code

30  for manufactured buildings is an efficient method for

31  providing manufactured buildings to residents of this state.

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 1  The department shall also be the agency responsible for the

 2  installation of mobile homes and manufactured buildings to

 3  such an extent that residents of this state are as safe as

 4  possible with respect to destructive weather.

 5         Section 25.  Effective January 1, 1999, the powers,

 6  duties, responsibilities, functions, records, personnel,

 7  property, and unexpended balances of appropriations,

 8  allocations, or other funds within the Department of Community

 9  Affairs relating to administration, implementation, and

10  enforcement of part IV of chapter 553, Florida Statutes, is

11  hereby transferred to the Division of Factory-built Housing of

12  the department.

13         Section 26.  Effective January 1, 1999:

14         (1)  All statutory powers, duties, functions, records,

15  personnel, property, and unexpended balances of

16  appropriations, allocations, or other funds of the Bureau of

17  Mobile Home and Recreational Vehicle Construction of the

18  Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles relating to

19  regulation and administration of mobile homes, and all

20  existing authority and actions of the bureau, including, but

21  not limited to, all pending and completed actions on orders

22  and rules, all enforcement matters, and delegations,

23  interagency agreements, and contracts with federal, state,

24  regional, and local governments and private entities relating

25  to regulation and administration of mobile homes, are hereby

26  transferred to the Division of Factory-built Housing of the

27  Department of Community Affairs.

28         (2)  The Department of Community Affairs and the

29  Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles shall have the

30  authority to enter into interagency agreements with each other

31  concerning any matter affected by the transfer of the Bureau

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