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The Committee on Transportation and Economic Development

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Appropriations (Hill) recommended the following amendment:

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     Senate Amendment (with title amendment)

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     Delete line(s) 194-203

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and insert:

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     Section 6.  Paragraphs (d) and (e) are added to subsection

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(1) of section 338.2216, Florida Statutes, to read:

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     338.2216  Florida Turnpike Enterprise; powers and

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authority.--

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     (1)

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     (d) The Florida Turnpike Enterprise is directed to pursue

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and implement new technologies and processes in its operations

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and collection of tolls and the collection of other amounts

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associated with road and infrastructure usage. Such technologies

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and processes shall include, without limitation, video billing

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and variable pricing.

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     (e)1. The Florida Turnpike Enterprise may not contract with

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any vendor for the retail sale of fuel along the Florida Turnpike

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if such contract is negotiated or bid together with any other

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contract, including, but not limited to, the retail sale of food,

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maintenance services, or construction, except that a contract for

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the retail sale of fuel along the Florida Turnpike shall be bid

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and contracted with the retail sale of food at any convenience

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store attached to the fuel station.

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     2. All contracts related to service plazas, including, but

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not limited to, the sale of fuel, the retail sale of food,

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maintenance services, or construction, awarded by the Florida

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Turnpike Enterprise shall be procured through individual

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competitive solicitations and awarded to the most cost-effective

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responder. This subparagraph does not prohibit the award of more

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than one individual contract to a single vendor who submits the

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most cost-effective response.

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================ T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================

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And the title is amended as follows:

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     On line(s) 27, after the first semicolon,

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insert:

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prohibiting the enterprise from entering into certain

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joint contracts for the sale of fuel and other goods;

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providing an exception; providing restrictions on

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contracts pertaining to service plazas;

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