Florida Senate - 2009                                    SB 2606
       
       
       
       By Senator Pruitt
       
       
       
       
       28-00373A-09                                          20092606__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to stormwater management system
    3         design; establishing a study commission to develop
    4         recommendations relating to stormwater management
    5         system design; specifying study criteria; providing
    6         for commission membership, meetings, and expiration;
    7         requiring the commission to submit findings and
    8         legislative recommendations to the Legislature by a
    9         specified date; providing an effective date.
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   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. (1) A study commission is established to develop
   14  legislative recommendations relating to stormwater management
   15  system design in the state. The commission shall:
   16         (a) Review the Joint Professional Engineers and Landscape
   17  Architecture Committee Report conducted pursuant to s. 17,
   18  chapter 88-347, Laws of Florida, and determine the current
   19  validity of the report and the need to revise any of the
   20  conclusions or recommendations.
   21         (b) Determine how a licensed and registered professional
   22  might demonstrate competency for stormwater management system
   23  design.
   24         (c) Determine how the Board of Professional Engineers and
   25  the Board of Landscape Architecture might administer
   26  certification tests or continuing education requirements for
   27  stormwater management system design.
   28         (d) Provide recommendations for grandfathering the rights
   29  of licensed professionals who currently practice stormwater
   30  management design in a manner that will allow them to continue
   31  to practice without meeting any new requirements the commission
   32  recommends be placed on licensed professionals in the future.
   33         (2)(a) The Board of Landscape Architecture, the Board of
   34  Professional Engineers, the Florida Engineering Society, the
   35  Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects,
   36  and the Secretary of Environmental Protection shall each appoint
   37  one member to the commission.
   38         (b) Members of the commission may not be reimbursed for
   39  travel, per diem, or any other costs associated with serving on
   40  the commission.
   41         (c) The commission shall meet a minimum of four times
   42  either in person or via teleconference; however, a minimum of
   43  two meetings shall be public hearings with testimony.
   44         (d) The commission shall expire on November 1, 2009.
   45         (3) The commission shall provide its findings and
   46  legislative recommendations to the President of the Senate and
   47  the Speaker of the House of Representatives by November 1, 2009.
   48         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.