Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 956
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  01/19/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Brandes) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 727 and 728
    4  insert:
    5         Section 17. Section 189.0695, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         189.0695 Special districts regulating transit or
    8  transportation services; procedures.—
    9         (1) An independent special district that regulates transit
   10  or transportation services is subject to the Administrative
   11  Procedure Act, chapter 120.
   12         (2) This section does not apply to any entity authorized
   13  under s. 163.567 or under chapter 343, chapter 348, or chapter
   14  349, or any public airport.
   15         Section 18. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
   16  120.52, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   17         120.52 Definitions.—As used in this act:
   18         (1) “Agency” means the following officers or governmental
   19  entities if acting pursuant to powers other than those derived
   20  from the constitution:
   21         (a) The Governor; each state officer and state department,
   22  and each departmental unit described in s. 20.04; the Board of
   23  Governors of the State University System; the Commission on
   24  Ethics; the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; a
   25  regional water supply authority; a regional planning agency; a
   26  multicounty special district, but only if a majority of its
   27  governing board is comprised of nonelected persons; an
   28  independent special district that regulates transit or
   29  transportation services; educational units; and each entity
   30  described in chapters 163, 373, 380, and 582 and s. 186.504.
   31  
   32  This definition does not include a municipality or legal entity
   33  created solely by a municipality; a legal entity or agency
   34  created in whole or in part pursuant to part II of chapter 361;
   35  a metropolitan planning organization created pursuant to s.
   36  339.175; a separate legal or administrative entity created
   37  pursuant to s. 339.175 of which a metropolitan planning
   38  organization is a member; an expressway authority pursuant to
   39  chapter 348 or any transportation authority or commission under
   40  chapter 343 or chapter 349; or a legal or administrative entity
   41  created by an interlocal agreement pursuant to s. 163.01(7),
   42  unless any party to such agreement is otherwise an agency as
   43  defined in this subsection.
   44  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   45  And the title is amended as follows:
   46         Between lines 71 and 72
   47  insert:
   48         creating s. 189.0695, F.S.; providing that certain
   49         independent special districts are subject to ch. 120,
   50         F.S.; providing applicability; amending s. 120.52,
   51         F.S.; expanding the definition of the term “agency” to
   52         include an independent special district that regulates
   53         transit or transportation services;