Senate Bill sb1560

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1560

    By Senators Peaden, Bronson, Clary, Mitchell, Latvala, Pruitt
    and Smith




    1-677-01                                                See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Department of

  3         Environmental Protection; directing the

  4         Department of Environmental Protection to

  5         establish a pilot project to test the

  6         cost-effectiveness of publication of notices on

  7         the Internet in lieu of publication in the

  8         Florida Administrative Weekly; providing that

  9         the Department of Environmental Protection

10         shall submit a report on the cost-effectiveness

11         of publication of such notices on the Internet;

12         providing an effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  (1)  On or before December 31, 2001, the

17  Department of Environmental Protection shall establish and

18  commence a pilot project to determine the cost-effectiveness

19  of publication of notices on the Internet in lieu of

20  publication in the Florida Administrative Weekly. The pilot

21  project shall end on July 1, 2003. Under this pilot project,

22  notwithstanding any other provision of the Florida Statutes,

23  whenever the Department of Environmental Protection is

24  required to publish notices in the Florida Administrative

25  Weekly, in lieu of publication in the Florida Administrative

26  Weekly, the Department of Environmental Protection shall

27  publish such notices on the Internet. Notices published on the

28  Internet under this provision shall clearly state the date the

29  notice was first posted on the Internet, shall be posted only

30  on the same days the Florida Administrative Weekly is

31  published, and shall comply with the form and content

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1560
    1-677-01                                                See HB




  1  provision of rules 1S-1.002-1S-1.004, Florida Administrative

  2  Code. Notices related to proposed rule development and

  3  proposed rulemaking published on the Internet under this

  4  provision shall be maintained on the Internet for a period of

  5  12 months after the effective date of the rule or 3 months

  6  after the publication of a notice of withdrawal of the

  7  proposed rule. All other notices published on the Internet

  8  under this provision shall be maintained on the Internet for a

  9  period of 3 months after the date first posted.

10         (2)  The Department of Environmental Protection shall

11  publish notice of this pilot project in each weekly

12  publication of the Florida Administrative Weekly. The notice

13  shall state:  "Under a temporary pilot project to determine

14  the cost-effectiveness of Internet publication of notices in

15  lieu of publication in the Florida Administrative Weekly,

16  notices of the Department of Environmental Protection are

17  being published on the Internet at the following Internet URL

18  or address:  http://www.dep.state.fl.us."

19         (3)  Based on information obtained from the date of

20  commencement of the pilot project through December 31, 2002,

21  the Department of Environmental Protection, on January 31,

22  2003, shall report to the Governor, the President of the

23  Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives its

24  findings on the cost-effectiveness of publication of notices

25  on the Internet in lieu of publication in the Florida

26  Administrative Weekly.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.

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    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1560
    1-677-01                                                See HB




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  2                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Directs the Department of Environmental Protection to
  4    establish a pilot project to test the cost-effectiveness
      of publication of notices on the Internet in lieu of
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