Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 800
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/24/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Finance and Tax (Altman)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    4         Delete line 133
    5  and insert:
    6         Section 3. All public roads, and the public rights-of-way
    7  associated therewith, lying within the limits of the lands being
    8  incorporated into Martin County as described in sections 1 and 2
    9  are transferred from the jurisdiction of St. Lucie County to the
   10  jurisdiction of Martin County on the effective date of the
   11  change in county boundaries pursuant to this act.
   12         Section 4. The governing bodies of St. Lucie County and
   13  Martin County shall enter into an interlocal agreement by
   14  October 1, 2012, which must include a feasible plan to transfer
   15  from St. Lucie County to Martin County the county services,
   16  buildings, infrastructure, waterways, and employees. The
   17  interlocal agreement must also include a gradual transfer of
   18  revenue generated from the area being incorporated into Martin
   19  County from St. Lucie County, which must be completed within 5
   20  years after the agreement is signed. Any loss of revenue to St.
   21  Lucie County may not exceed 20 percent per year of the revenues
   22  that would have been raised from the land transferred to Martin
   23  County in section 1 of this act.
   24         Section 5. This act shall take effect only upon its
   25  approval by a majority vote of those qualified electors residing
   26  in the area being transferred from St. Lucie County to Martin
   27  County as described in section 1 voting in a referendum to be
   28  held by the Board of County Commissioners and conducted by the
   29  Supervisor of Elections of St. Lucie County in conjunction with
   30  the next general, special, or other election to be held in St.
   31  Lucie County, in accordance with the provisions of law relating
   32  to elections currently in force, except that this section shall
   33  take effect upon becoming a law.
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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 line 7
   38  and insert:
   39         conform; transferring certain roads and associated
   40         rights-of-way; requiring that St. Lucie County and
   41         Martin County enter into an interlocal agreement that
   42         provides for a feasible plan for the transfer of
   43         county services, buildings, infrastructure waterways,
   44         and employees and for the transfer of income generated
   45         from the area transferred by a time certain; limiting
   46         the annual loss of revenue from the transferred land;
   47         providing that the transfer is contingent upon
   48         approval of a referendum by the qualified electors
   49         residing in the area being transferred from St. Lucie
   50         County to Martin County; providing effective dates.