Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1180
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/14/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism,
       and Economic Development Appropriations (Latvala) recommended
       the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 962 and 963
    4  insert:
    5         Section 19. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
    6  339.175, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         339.175 Metropolitan planning organization.—
    8         (4) APPORTIONMENT.—
    9         (a) The Governor shall, with the agreement of the affected
   10  units of general-purpose local government as required by federal
   11  rules and regulations, apportion the membership on the
   12  applicable M.P.O. among the various governmental entities within
   13  the area. At the request of a majority of the affected units of
   14  general-purpose local government comprising an M.P.O., the
   15  Governor and a majority of units of general-purpose local
   16  government serving on an M.P.O. shall cooperatively agree upon
   17  and prescribe who may serve as an alternate member and a method
   18  for appointing alternate members who may vote at any M.P.O.
   19  meeting that an alternate member attends in place of a regular
   20  member. The method shall be set forth as a part of the
   21  interlocal agreement describing the M.P.O.’s membership or in
   22  the M.P.O.’s operating procedures and bylaws. The governmental
   23  entity so designated shall appoint the appropriate number of
   24  members to the M.P.O. from eligible officials. Representatives
   25  of the department shall serve as nonvoting advisers to members
   26  of the M.P.O. governing board. Additional nonvoting advisers may
   27  be appointed by the M.P.O. as deemed necessary; however, to the
   28  maximum extent feasible, each M.P.O. shall seek to appoint
   29  nonvoting representatives of various multimodal forms of
   30  transportation not otherwise represented by voting members of
   31  the M.P.O. An M.P.O. shall appoint nonvoting advisers
   32  representing major military installations located within the
   33  jurisdictional boundaries of the M.P.O. upon the request of the
   34  aforesaid major military installations and subject to the
   35  agreement of the M.P.O. All nonvoting advisers may attend and
   36  participate fully in governing board meetings but shall not have
   37  a vote and shall not be members of the governing board. The
   38  Governor shall review the composition of the M.P.O. membership
   39  in conjunction with the decennial census as prepared by the
   40  United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, and
   41  reapportion it as necessary to comply with subsection (3).
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   43  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   44  And the title is amended as follows:
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   46         Delete line 57
   47  and insert:
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   49         payment of commercial rental tax; amending s. 339.175,
   50         F.S.; providing that representatives of the Department
   51         of Transportation shall serve as nonvoting advisers to
   52         a Metropolitan Planning Organization; authorizing the
   53         appointment of additional nonvoting advisers; amending
   54         s. 339.62,