Florida Senate - 2009              PROPOSED COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
       Bill No. SB 1786
       
       
       
       
       
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       606-03309A-09                                                   
       Proposed Committee Substitute by the Committee on Transportation
       and Economic Development Appropriations
       
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to comprehensive plan amendments;
    3         establishing transmittal fees for proposed
    4         comprehensive plan amendment packages sent to the
    5         state land planning agency; requiring the state land
    6         planning agency to deposit all fees collected into the
    7         Operating Trust Fund within the Department of
    8         Community Affairs; requiring the state land planning
    9         agency to submit a report to the President of the
   10         Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
   11         by a specified date; providing a declaration of
   12         important state interest; 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. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (3) of
   17  section 163.3184, Florida Statutes, to read:
   18         163.3184 Process for adoption of comprehensive plan or plan
   19  amendment.—
   20         (3) LOCAL GOVERNMENT TRANSMITTAL OF PROPOSED PLAN OR
   21  AMENDMENT.—
   22         (e) Every proposed comprehensive plan amendment package
   23  transmitted to the state land planning agency pursuant to s.
   24  163.3184(3) shall be accompanied by a $5,000 fee. Every proposed
   25  comprehensive plan amendment package transmitted to the state
   26  land planning agency pursuant to s. 163.32465(4) shall be
   27  accompanied by a $6,500 fee. A proposed package containing one
   28  or more amendments subject to review under s. 163.3184(3) and
   29  one or more amendments subject to review under s. 163.32465(4)
   30  shall be accompanied by a fee of $6,500. Every adopted
   31  comprehensive plan amendment transmitted to the state land
   32  planning agency pursuant to s. 163.3177(3(b)2. shall be
   33  accompanied by a fee of $1,250. The state land planning agency
   34  shall deposit all fees collected into the Operating Trust Fund
   35  within the Department of Community Affairs. Not later than
   36  October 1, 2010, the state land planning agency shall submit a
   37  report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
   38  House of Representatives evaluating the fee collection.
   39         Section 2. The Legislature finds and declares that this act
   40  fulfills an important state interest.
   41         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.