Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 424
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/20/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Finance and Tax (Justice) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 821 and 822
    4  insert:
    5         Section 15. Paragraph (d) of subsection (7) of section
    6  339.135, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         339.135 Work program; legislative budget request;
    8  definitions; preparation, adoption, execution, and amendment.—
    9         (7) AMENDMENT OF THE ADOPTED WORK PROGRAM.—
   10         (d)1. Whenever the department proposes any amendment to the
   11  adopted work program, as defined in subparagraph (c)1. or
   12  subparagraph (c)3., which deletes or defers a construction phase
   13  on a capacity project, it shall notify each county affected by
   14  the amendment and each municipality within the county. The
   15  notification shall be issued in writing to the chief elected
   16  official of each affected county, each municipality within the
   17  county, and the chair of each affected metropolitan planning
   18  organization. Each affected county and each municipality in the
   19  county is encouraged to coordinate with each other in order to
   20  determine how the amendment affects local concurrency management
   21  and regional transportation planning efforts. Each affected
   22  county, and each municipality within the county, shall have 14
   23  days to provide written comments to the department regarding how
   24  the amendment will affect its respective concurrency management
   25  systems, including whether any development permits were issued
   26  contingent upon the capacity improvement, if applicable. After
   27  receipt of written comments from the affected local governments,
   28  the department shall include any written comments submitted by
   29  such local governments in its preparation of the proposed
   30  amendment.
   31         2. Following the 14-day comment period in subparagraph 1.,
   32  if applicable, whenever the department proposes any amendment to
   33  the adopted work program, which amendment is defined in
   34  subparagraph (c)1., subparagraph (c)2., subparagraph (c)3., or
   35  subparagraph (c)4., it shall submit the proposed amendment to
   36  the Governor for approval and shall immediately notify the
   37  chairs of the legislative appropriations committees, the chairs
   38  of the legislative transportation committees, and each member of
   39  the Legislature who represents a district affected by the
   40  proposed amendment. It shall also notify, each metropolitan
   41  planning organization affected by the proposed amendment, and
   42  each unit of local government affected by the proposed
   43  amendment, unless it provided to each the notification required
   44  by subparagraph 1. Such proposed amendment shall provide a
   45  complete justification of the need for the proposed amendment.
   46         3.2. The Governor may shall not approve a proposed
   47  amendment until 14 days following the notification required in
   48  subparagraph 2. 1.
   49         4.3. If either of the chairs of the legislative
   50  appropriations committees or the President of the Senate or the
   51  Speaker of the House of Representatives objects in writing to a
   52  proposed amendment within 14 days following notification and
   53  specifies the reasons for such objection, the Governor shall
   54  disapprove the proposed amendment.
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   56  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   57         And the title is amended as follows:
   58         Delete line 66
   59  and insert:
   60         public notice and hearing; amending s. 339.135, F.S.;
   61  revising certain notice provisions that require the Department
   62  of Transportation to notify local governments regarding
   63  amendments to an adopted 5-year work program; amending s.
   64  339.2816, F.S.,