Florida Senate - 2019                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1500
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources (Simmons)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) and subsection
    6  (3) of section 270.11, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         270.11 Contracts for sale of public lands to reserve
    8  certain mineral rights; prohibition on exercise of right of
    9  entry in certain cases.—
   10         (2)
   11         (b) A local government, a water management district, or an
   12  agency of the state may, at its discretion, sell or release
   13  reserved interest in any parcel of land, except that such sale
   14  or release shall be made upon petition of the purchaser for such
   15  interest and with a statement of reasons justifying such sale or
   16  release.
   17         (3) The right of entry in respect to any interest in
   18  phosphate, minerals, and metals or any interest in petroleum
   19  heretofore or hereafter reserved in favor of the Board of
   20  Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, or the State
   21  Board of Education, a local government, a water management
   22  district, or other agency of the state is hereby released for as
   23  to any parcel of property that is, or ever has been, a
   24  contiguous tract of less than 20 acres in the aggregate under
   25  the same ownership.
   26         (3) A local government, water management district, or
   27  agency of the state may, at its discretion, sell or release
   28  reserved interest in any parcel of land, except that such sale
   29  or release shall be made upon petition of the purchaser for such
   30  interest and with a statement of reasons justifying such sale or
   31  release.
   32         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.
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   35  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   36  And the title is amended as follows:
   37         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   38  and insert:
   39                        A bill to be entitled                      
   40         An act relating to right of entry; amending s. 270.11,
   41  F.S.; releasing right of entry reserved by a local government,
   42  water management district, or other agency of the state for
   43  specified parcels of property; providing an effective date.