Florida Senate - 2009                             CS for SB 1786
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Transportation and Economic Development
       Appropriations; and Senator Fasano
       
       
       
       606-04029-09                                          20091786c1
       
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to comprehensive plan amendments;
    3         establishing a transmittal fee for proposed
    4         comprehensive plan amendments sent to the state land
    5         planning agency; providing an exception; providing
    6         that a local government is not limited in passing
    7         along the fee associated with plan-amendment review to
    8         certain entities; requiring the state land planning
    9         agency to deposit all fees collected into the
   10         Operating Trust Fund within the Department of
   11         Community Affairs; requiring the state land planning
   12         agency to submit a report to the President of the
   13         Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
   14         by a specified date; providing a declaration of
   15         important state interest; providing an effective date.
   16  
   17  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   18  
   19         Section 1. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (3) of
   20  section 163.3184, Florida Statutes, to read:
   21         163.3184 Process for adoption of comprehensive plan or plan
   22  amendment.—
   23         (3) LOCAL GOVERNMENT TRANSMITTAL OF PROPOSED PLAN OR
   24  AMENDMENT.—
   25         (e) Every proposed comprehensive plan amendment transmitted
   26  to the state land planning agency pursuant to this subsection
   27  and s. 163.32465(4) shall be accompanied by a $200 fee, except
   28  for plan amendments necessary to implement mandatory provisions
   29  of part II of chapter 163. This paragraph does not limit a local
   30  government’s authority to pass along the fee associated with
   31  plan-amendment review to the entity requesting the plan
   32  amendment. The state land planning agency shall deposit all fees
   33  collected into the Operating Trust Fund within the Department of
   34  Community Affairs. Not later than October 1, 2010, the state
   35  land planning agency shall submit a report to the President of
   36  the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
   37  evaluating the fee collection.
   38         Section 2. The Legislature finds and declares that this act
   39  fulfills an important state interest.
   40         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.