Florida Senate - 2023                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 718
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/24/2023           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Rodriguez) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Before line 16
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (8) of section 163.3167, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         163.3167 Scope of act.—
    8         (8)(a) An initiative or referendum process in regard to any
    9  development order is prohibited.
   10         (b) An initiative or referendum process in regard to any
   11  land development regulation is prohibited.
   12         (c)(b) An initiative or referendum process in regard to any
   13  local comprehensive plan amendment or map amendment is
   14  prohibited unless it is expressly authorized by specific
   15  language in a local government charter that was lawful and in
   16  effect on June 1, 2011. A general local government charter
   17  provision for an initiative or referendum process is not
   18  sufficient.
   19         (d)(c) It is the intent of the Legislature that initiative
   20  and referendum be prohibited in regard to any development order
   21  or land development regulation. It is the intent of the
   22  Legislature that initiative and referendum be prohibited in
   23  regard to any local comprehensive plan amendment or map
   24  amendment, except as specifically and narrowly allowed by
   25  paragraph (c) (b). Therefore, the prohibition on initiative and
   26  referendum stated in paragraphs (a) and (c) (b) is remedial in
   27  nature and applies retroactively to any initiative or referendum
   28  process commenced after June 1, 2011, and any such initiative or
   29  referendum process commenced or completed thereafter is deemed
   30  null and void and of no legal force and effect.
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   33  And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Delete line 2
   35  and insert:
   36         An act relating to local government; amending s.
   37         163.3167, F.S.; prohibiting an initiative or
   38         referendum process in regard to any land development
   39         regulation; reordering