Florida Senate - 2012 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/CS/CS/HB 599, 1st Eng.
Barcode 426610
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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Senators Dean and Latvala moved the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 41 and 42
4 insert:
5 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section
6 20.23, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
7 20.23 Department of Transportation.—There is created a
8 Department of Transportation which shall be a decentralized
9 agency.
10 (5)(a) The operations of the department shall be organized
11 into seven districts, each headed by a district secretary, and a
12 turnpike enterprise and a rail enterprise, each enterprise
13 headed by an executive director. The district secretaries and
14 the executive directors shall be registered professional
15 engineers in accordance with the provisions of chapter 471 or
16 the laws of another state, or, in lieu of professional engineer
17 registration, a district secretary or executive director may
18 hold an advanced degree in an appropriate related discipline,
19 such as a Master of Business Administration. The headquarters of
20 the districts shall be located in Polk, Columbia, Washington,
21 Broward, Volusia, Miami-Dade, and Hillsborough Counties. The
22 headquarters of the turnpike enterprise shall be located in
23 Orange County. The headquarters of the rail enterprise shall be
24 located in Leon County. In order to provide for efficient
25 operations and to expedite the decisionmaking process, the
26 department shall provide for maximum decentralization to the
27 districts.
28 Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
29 339.175, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
30 (4) APPORTIONMENT.—
31 (a) The Governor shall, with the agreement of the affected
32 units of general-purpose local government as required by federal
33 rules and regulations, apportion the membership on the
34 applicable M.P.O. among the various governmental entities within
35 the area. At the request of a majority of the affected units of
36 general-purpose local government comprising an M.P.O., the
37 Governor and a majority of units of general-purpose local
38 government serving on an M.P.O. shall cooperatively agree upon
39 and prescribe who may serve as an alternate member and a method
40 for appointing alternate members who may vote at any M.P.O.
41 meeting that an alternate member attends in place of a regular
42 member. The method shall be set forth as a part of the
43 interlocal agreement describing the M.P.O.’s membership or in
44 the M.P.O.’s operating procedures and bylaws. The governmental
45 entity so designated shall appoint the appropriate number of
46 members to the M.P.O. from eligible officials. Representatives
47 of the department shall serve as nonvoting advisers to members
48 of the M.P.O. governing board. Additional nonvoting advisers may
49 be appointed by the M.P.O. as deemed necessary; however, to the
50 maximum extent feasible, each M.P.O. shall seek to appoint
51 nonvoting representatives of various multimodal forms of
52 transportation not otherwise represented by voting members of
53 the M.P.O. An M.P.O. shall appoint nonvoting advisers
54 representing major military installations located within the
55 jurisdictional boundaries of the M.P.O. upon the request of the
56 aforesaid major military installations and subject to the
57 agreement of the M.P.O. All nonvoting advisers may attend and
58 participate fully in governing board meetings but may shall not
59 have a vote or and shall not be members of the governing board.
60 The Governor shall review the composition of the M.P.O.
61 membership in conjunction with the decennial census as prepared
62 by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
63 Census, and reapportion it as necessary to comply with
64 subsection (3).
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67 And the title is amended as follows:
68 Delete line 3
69 and insert:
70 programs; amending s. 20.23, F.S., relating to the
71 Department of Transportation; requiring that district
72 secretaries and executive directors be professional
73 engineers from any state; amending s. 339.175, F.S.;
74 providing that representatives of the department shall
75 serve as nonvoting advisers to the metropolitan
76 planning organization governing board; authorizing the
77 appointment of additional nonvoting advisers; revising
78 the