HOUSE AMENDMENT
Bill No. HB 1157 CS
   
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12          Representative Murzin offered the following:
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14          Amendment (with title amendment)
15          Remove everything after the enacting clause, and insert:
16          Section 1. Section 120.551, Florida Statutes, is amended
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18          120.551 Internet publication pilot project.--
19          (1) On or before December 31, 2001,The Department of
20    Environmental Protection on its own behalf and acting as staff
21    to the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund
22    shall publishand the State Technology Office shall establish
23    and commence a pilot project to determine the cost-effectiveness
24    of publication of notices on the Internet in lieu of complete
25    publication in the Florida Administrative Weekly. The pilot
26    project shall end on July 1, 2003. Under this pilot project,
27    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever notices are
28    published on the Internet in lieu ofthe Department of
29    Environmental Protection is required to publish noticesin the
30    Florida Administrative Weekly, the Department of State shall
31    Environmental Protection instead may publish a summary of such
32    notice in the Florida Administrative Weekly along withthe
33    specific URL or Internet address where the complete agency
34    notice required by law shall be published. The Department of
35    Environmental Protection shall publish All other notices shall
36    be publishedin the manner prescribed by law. Notices published
37    on the Internet under this section shall clearly state the date
38    the notice was first posted on the Internet and shall be
39    initially posted only on the same days the Florida
40    Administrative Weekly is published. Notices related to
41    rulemaking published on the Internet under this provision shall
42    be maintained on the Internet for a period of at least 12 months
43    after the effective date of the rule or at least 3 months after
44    the publication of a notice of withdrawal of the proposed rule.
45    All other notices published on the Internet under this provision
46    shall be maintained on the Internet for a period of at least 3
47    months after the date first posted. A searchable database or
48    other electronic system shalltobe permanently maintained on
49    the Internet for the purpose of archiving all notices published
50    on the Internet and allowing citizens permanent electronic
51    access to such archived records shall also be established by the
52    pilot project. No notice posted on the Internet shall be removed
53    until the searchable database is implemented.
54          (2) The Department of State shall publish notice of this
55    pilot project in each weekly publication of the Florida
56    Administrative Weekly. The notice shall state: "Under a
57    temporary pilot project, in conjunction with the State
58    Technology Office, to determine the cost-effectiveness of
59    Internet publication of notices in lieu of complete publication
60    in the Florida Administrative Weekly, summaries of notices of
61    the Department of Environmental Protection are being published
62    in the Florida Administrative Weekly along with a reference to
63    the specific Internet URL or address where the complete notice
64    required by law shall be published."
65          (3) No later than January 31, 2003, the Department of
66    Environmental Protection, the State Technology Office, and the
67    Department of State shall submit a report to the Governor, the
68    President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
69    Representatives containing findings on the cost-effectiveness of
70    publication of notices on the Internet in lieu of publication in
71    the Florida Administrative Weekly, and recommendations,
72    including legislative or rule changes, for modifications to the
73    process necessary to effectuate publication of notices on the
74    Internet.
75          Section 2. Paragraph (i) of subsection (1) of section
76    120.54, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
77          120.54 Rulemaking.--
78          (1) GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO ALL RULES OTHER THAN
79    EMERGENCY RULES.--
80          (i)1.A rule may incorporate material by reference but
81    only as the material exists on the date the rule is adopted. For
82    purposes of the rule, changes in the material are not effective
83    unless the rule is amended to incorporate the changes.
84          2. Notwithstanding any provision in this section to the
85    contrary, when an adopted rule of the Department of
86    Environmental Protection or a water management district is
87    incorporated by reference in the other agency’s rule to
88    implement a provision of chapter 373, subsequent amendments to
89    the rule are not effective as to the incorporating rule unless
90    the agency incorporating by reference notifies the committee and
91    the Department of State of its intent to adopt the subsequent
92    amendment, publishes notice of such intent in the Florida
93    Administrative Weekly, and files with the Department of State a
94    copy of the amended rule incorporated by reference. Changes in
95    the rule incorporated by reference are effective 20 days after
96    the date of the published notice and filing with the Department
97    of State. The Department of State shall amend the history note
98    of the incorporating rule to show the effective date of such
99    change. Any substantially affected person may, within 14 days
100    after the date of publication of the notice of intent in the
101    Florida Administrative Weekly, file an objection to rulemaking
102    with the agency. The objection shall specify the portions of the
103    rule incorporated by reference to which the person objects and
104    the reasons for the objection. The agency shall not have the
105    authority under this subparagraph to adopt those portions of the
106    rule specified in such objection. Objections which are frivolous
107    or which duplicate those previously filed during the initial
108    adoption of the rule incorporated by reference shall not be
109    considered sufficient to prohibit the agency from adopting rules
110    under this subparagraph. The agency shall publish notice of the
111    objection, and its action in response, in the next available
112    issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.
113          3.A rule may not be amended by reference only. Amendments
114    must set out the amended rule in full in the same manner as
115    required by the State Constitution for laws. The Department of
116    State may prescribe by rule requirements for incorporating
117    materials by reference pursuant to this paragraph.
118          Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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121          Remove the entire title, and insert:
122 A bill to be entitled
123          An act relating to agency rules; amending s. 120.551,
124    F.S.; providing that the Department of Environmental
125    Protection on its own behalf and on behalf of the Board of
126    Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund shall
127    publish its notices on the Internet rather than by
128    publication in the Florida Administrative Weekly;
129    requiring the Department of State to publish the specific
130    URL or Internet address for such notices; eliminating a
131    duplicative pilot project which is scheduled to terminate;
132    amending s. 120.54, F.S.; providing that subsequent
133    amendments to certain rules of the Department of
134    Environmental Protection or water management districts
135    which were incorporated by the other agency into its rules
136    are not automatically incorporated into such rules;
137    providing notice and procedures for such additional
138    incorporation; providing for the filing of objections by
139    affected persons; providing notice and procedures for
140    filing such objections; providing an effective date.