| 1 | Representative Workman offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 7181 and 7182, insert: |
| 5 | Section 34. Paragraph (c) of subsection (2) and |
| 6 | subsections (3) and (4) of section 186.504, Florida Statutes, |
| 7 | are amended to read: |
| 8 | 186.504 Regional planning councils; creation; membership.- |
| 9 | (2) Membership on the regional planning council shall be |
| 10 | as follows: |
| 11 | (c) Representatives appointed by the Governor from the |
| 12 | geographic area covered by the regional planning council, |
| 13 | including an elected school board member from the geographic |
| 14 | area covered by the regional planning council, to be nominated |
| 15 | by the Florida School Board Association, and a representative of |
| 16 | the civic and business community who shall be nominated by the |
| 17 | Florida Chamber of Commerce. The Governor's appointments must |
| 18 | include two or more of the following: a representative of the |
| 19 | region's business community, a representative of the commercial |
| 20 | development community, a representative of the banking and |
| 21 | financial community, and a representative of the agricultural |
| 22 | community. |
| 23 | (3) Not less than two-thirds of the representatives |
| 24 | serving as voting members on the governing bodies of such |
| 25 | regional planning councils shall be elected officials of local |
| 26 | general-purpose governments chosen by the cities and counties of |
| 27 | the region, provided each county shall have at least one vote. |
| 28 | The remaining one-third of the voting members on the governing |
| 29 | board shall be appointed by the Governor, to include one elected |
| 30 | school board member, subject to confirmation by the Senate, and |
| 31 | shall reside in the region. No two appointees of the Governor |
| 32 | may shall have their places of residence in the same county |
| 33 | until each county within the region is represented by a |
| 34 | Governor's appointee to the governing board. Nothing contained |
| 35 | in This section does not shall deny to local governing bodies or |
| 36 | the Governor the option of appointing either locally elected |
| 37 | officials or lay citizens if provided at least two-thirds of the |
| 38 | governing body of the regional planning council is composed of |
| 39 | locally elected officials. |
| 40 | (4) In addition to voting members appointed pursuant to |
| 41 | paragraph (2)(c), the Governor shall appoint the following ex |
| 42 | officio nonvoting members to each regional planning council: |
| 43 | (a) A representative of the Department of Transportation. |
| 44 | (b) A representative of the Department of Environmental |
| 45 | Protection. |
| 46 | (c) A representative nominated by Enterprise Florida, |
| 47 | Inc., and the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic |
| 48 | Development. |
| 49 | (c)(d) A representative of the appropriate water |
| 50 | management district or districts. |
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| 52 | The Governor may also appoint ex officio nonvoting members |
| 53 | representing appropriate metropolitan planning organizations and |
| 54 | regional water supply authorities. |
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| 59 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 60 | Between lines 115 and 116, insert: |
| 61 | amending s. 186.504, F.S.; revising membership requirements of |
| 62 | regional planning councils; |