Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1168
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  02/16/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Commerce and Tourism (Ring) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 869 and 870
    4  insert:
    5         Section 9. Subsection (5) is added to section 339.63,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         339.63 System facilities designated; additions and
    8  deletions.—
    9         (5)(a) The Secretary of Transportation shall designate a
   10  planned facility as part of the Strategic Intermodal System upon
   11  request of the facility if the facility meets the criteria and
   12  thresholds established in subsection (4), meets the definition
   13  of an intermodal logistics center, and has been designated in a
   14  local comprehensive plan or local government development order
   15  as an intermodal logistics center or an equivalent planning
   16  term.
   17         (b) As used in this section, the term “intermodal logistics
   18  center” means a facility or group of facilities serving as a
   19  point of intermodal transfer of freight in a specific area
   20  physically separated from a seaport where activities relating to
   21  transport, logistics, goods distribution, consolidation, or
   22  value-added activities are carried out and whose activities and
   23  services are designed to support or be supported by one or more
   24  seaports, as provide in s. 311.09.
   25         (c) A facility that is designated part of the Strategic
   26  Intermodal System and is within the jurisdiction of a local
   27  government that maintains a transportation concurrency system
   28  shall receive a waiver of transportation concurrency
   29  requirements applicable to Strategic Intermodal System
   30  facilities in order to accommodate any development at the
   31  facility which occurs pursuant to a building permit issued on or
   32  before December 31, 2017, but only if such facility is located
   33  within:
   34         1. An area designated pursuant to s. 288.0656(7) as a rural
   35  area of critical economic concern;
   36         2. A rural enterprise zone as defined in s. 290.004; or
   37         3. Ten miles of the boundary of a rural area of critical
   38  economic concern or a rural enterprise zone.
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   40  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   41  And the title is amended as follows:
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   43         Delete line 75
   44  and insert:
   45         cross-references to changes made by the act; amending
   46         s. 339.63, F.S.; establishing procedures for
   47         designating a facility as part of the Strategic
   48         Intermodal System; providing for a waiver of
   49         transportation concurrency for such a facility;
   50         providing