Florida Senate - 2024 SENATOR AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS/CS/CS/HB 1301, 1st Eng.
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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Senator DiCeglie moved 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 (a) of subsection (1) and paragraphs
6 (b) and (d) of subsection (3) of section 20.23, Florida
7 Statutes, are amended to read:
8 20.23 Department of Transportation.—There is created a
9 Department of Transportation which shall be a decentralized
10 agency.
11 (1)(a) The head of the Department of Transportation is the
12 Secretary of Transportation. The secretary shall be appointed by
13 the Governor from among three persons nominated by the Florida
14 Transportation Commission and shall be subject to confirmation
15 by the Senate. The secretary shall serve at the pleasure of the
16 Governor.
17 (3)
18 (b) The secretary may appoint positions at the level of
19 deputy assistant secretary or director which the secretary deems
20 necessary to accomplish the mission and goals of the department,
21 including, but not limited to, the areas of program
22 responsibility provided in this paragraph, each of whom shall be
23 appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the secretary. The
24 secretary may combine, separate, or delete offices as needed in
25 consultation with the Executive Office of the Governor. The
26 department’s areas of program responsibility include, but are
27 not limited to, all of the following:
28 1. Administration.;
29 2. Planning.;
30 3. Modal development. Public transportation;
31 4. Design.;
32 5. Highway operations.;
33 6. Right-of-way.;
34 7. Toll operations.;
35 8. Transportation technology.
36 9.8. Information systems.;
37 10.9. Motor carrier weight inspection.;
38 11.10. Work program Management and budget.;
39 12.11. Comptroller.;
40 13.12. Construction.;
41 14. Statewide corridors.
42 15.13. Maintenance.; and
43 16. Forecasting and performance.
44 17. Emergency management.
45 18. Safety.
46 19.14. Materials.
47 20. Infrastructure and innovation.
48 21. Permitting.
49 22. Traffic operations.
50 (d) The secretary shall appoint an inspector general
51 pursuant to s. 20.055 who shall be directly responsible to the
52 secretary and shall serve at the pleasure of the secretary.
53 Section 2. Present subsection (7) of section 311.101,
54 Florida Statutes, is redesignated as subsection (8), and a new
55 subsection (7) is added to that section, to read:
56 311.101 Intermodal Logistics Center Infrastructure Support
57 Program.—
58 (7) Beginning with the 2024-2025 fiscal year through the
59 2029-2030 fiscal year, $15 million in recurring funds shall be
60 made available from the State Transportation Trust Fund for the
61 program. The Department of Transportation shall include projects
62 proposed to be funded under this section in the tentative work
63 program developed pursuant to s. 339.135(4).
64 Section 3. Section 334.046, Florida Statutes, is amended to
65 read:
66 334.046 Department mission, goals, and objectives.—
67 (1) The department shall consider the following prevailing
68 principles when to be considered in planning and developing the
69 state’s multimodal an integrated, balanced statewide
70 transportation system are: preserving Florida’s the existing
71 transportation infrastructure; supporting its enhancing
72 Florida’s economic competitiveness; promoting the efficient
73 movement of people and goods; and preserving Florida’s quality
74 of life improving travel choices to ensure mobility.
75 (2) The mission of the Department of Transportation shall
76 be to provide a safe statewide transportation system that
77 promotes the efficient movement ensures the mobility of people
78 and goods, supports the state’s enhances economic
79 competitiveness, prioritizes Florida’s environment and natural
80 resources prosperity, and preserves the quality of life and
81 connectedness of the state’s our environment and communities.
82 (3) The department shall document in the Florida
83 Transportation Plan, in accordance with s. 339.155 and based
84 upon the prevailing principles outlined in this section shall be
85 incorporated into all of preserving the existing transportation
86 infrastructure, enhancing Florida’s economic competitiveness,
87 and improving travel choices to ensure mobility, the goals and
88 objectives that provide statewide policy guidance for
89 accomplishing the department’s mission, including the Florida
90 Transportation Plan outlined in s. 339.155.
91 (4) At a minimum, the department’s goals shall address the
92 following prevailing principles:.
93 (a) Maintaining investments Preservation.—Protecting the
94 state’s transportation infrastructure investment, which.
95 Preservation includes:
96 1. Ensuring that 80 percent of the pavement on the State
97 Highway System meets department standards;
98 2. Ensuring that 90 percent of department-maintained
99 bridges meet department standards; and
100 3. Ensuring that the department achieves 100 percent of the
101 acceptable maintenance standard on the state highway system.
102 (b) Economic competitiveness.—Ensuring that the state has a
103 clear understanding of the return on investment and economic
104 impacts consequences of transportation infrastructure
105 investments, and how such investments affect the state’s
106 economic competitiveness. The department must develop a
107 macroeconomic analysis of the linkages between transportation
108 investment and economic performance, as well as a method to
109 quantifiably measure the economic benefits of the district-work
110 program investments. Such an analysis must analyze:
111 1. The state’s and district’s economic performance relative
112 to the competition.
113 2. The business environment as viewed from the perspective
114 of companies evaluating the state as a place in which to do
115 business.
116 3. The state’s capacity to sustain long-term growth.
117 (c) Connected transportation system Mobility.—Ensuring a
118 cost-effective, statewide, interconnected transportation system
119 that provides for the most efficient and effective multimodality
120 and mobility.
121 (d) Preserving Florida’s natural resources and quality of
122 life.—Prioritizing Florida’s natural resources and the quality
123 of life of its communities.
124 Section 4. Section 334.61, Florida Statutes, is created to
125 read:
126 334.61 Traffic lane repurposing.—
127 (1) When a governmental entity proposes any project that
128 will repurpose one or more existing traffic lanes, the
129 governmental entity shall include a traffic study to address any
130 potential adverse impacts of the project, including, but not
131 limited to, changes in traffic congestion and impacts on safety.
132 (2) If, following the study required by subsection (1), the
133 governmental entity elects to continue with the design of the
134 project, it must notify all affected property owners, impacted
135 municipalities, and the counties in which the project is located
136 at least 180 days before the design phase of the project is
137 completed. The notice must provide a written explanation
138 regarding the need for the project and information on how to
139 review the traffic study required by subsection (1), and must
140 indicate that all affected parties will be given an opportunity
141 to provide comments to the proposing entity regarding potential
142 impacts of the change.
143 (3) The governmental entity shall hold at least one public
144 meeting, with at least 30 days prior notice, before completing
145 the design phase of the project in the jurisdiction where the
146 project is located. At the public meeting, the governmental
147 entity shall explain the purpose of the project and receive
148 public input, including possible alternatives, to determine the
149 manner in which the project will affect the community.
150 (4) The governmental entity shall review all comments from
151 the public meeting and take the comments and any alternatives
152 presented during the meeting into consideration in the final
153 design of the project.
154 Section 5. Paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of section
155 338.231, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
156 338.231 Turnpike tolls, fixing; pledge of tolls and other
157 revenues.—The department shall at all times fix, adjust, charge,
158 and collect such tolls and amounts for the use of the turnpike
159 system as are required in order to provide a fund sufficient
160 with other revenues of the turnpike system to pay the cost of
161 maintaining, improving, repairing, and operating such turnpike
162 system; to pay the principal of and interest on all bonds issued
163 to finance or refinance any portion of the turnpike system as
164 the same become due and payable; and to create reserves for all
165 such purposes.
166 (3)
167 (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
168 contrary, any prepaid toll account of any kind which has
169 remained inactive for 10 3 years is shall be presumed unclaimed
170 and its disposition shall be handled by the Department of
171 Financial Services in accordance with all applicable provisions
172 of chapter 717 relating to the disposition of unclaimed
173 property, and the prepaid toll account shall be closed by the
174 department.
175 Section 6. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
176 338.26, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
177 338.26 Alligator Alley toll road.—
178 (3)(a) Fees generated from tolls shall be deposited in the
179 State Transportation Trust Fund and shall be used:
180 1. To reimburse outstanding contractual obligations;
181 2. To operate and maintain the highway and toll facilities,
182 including reconstruction and restoration;
183 3. To pay for those projects that are funded with Alligator
184 Alley toll revenues and that are contained in the 1993-1994
185 adopted work program or the 1994-1995 tentative work program
186 submitted to the Legislature on February 22, 1994; and
187 4. By interlocal agreement effective July 1, 2019, through
188 no later than June 30, 2027, to reimburse a local governmental
189 entity for the direct actual costs of operating the fire station
190 at mile marker 63 on Alligator Alley, which shall be used by the
191 local governmental entity to provide fire, rescue, and emergency
192 management services exclusively to the public on Alligator
193 Alley. The local governmental entity must contribute 10 percent
194 of the direct actual operating costs.
195 a. The interlocal agreement effective July 1, 2019, through
196 June 30, 2027, shall control until such time that the local
197 governmental entity and the department enter into a new
198 agreement or agree to extend the existing agreement. For the
199 2024-2025 fiscal year, the amount of reimbursement may not
200 exceed $2 million.
201 b. By December 31, 2024, and every 5 years thereafter, the
202 local governmental entity shall provide a maintenance and
203 operations comprehensive plan to the department. The
204 comprehensive plan must include a current inventory of assets,
205 including their projected service life, and area service needs;
206 the call and response history for emergency services provided in
207 the preceding 5 years on Alligator Alley, including costs; and
208 future projections for assets and equipment, including
209 replacement or purchase needs, and operating costs.
210 c. The local governmental entity and the department shall
211 review and adopt the comprehensive plan as part of the
212 interlocal agreement.
213 d. In accordance with projected incoming toll revenues for
214 Alligator Alley, the department shall include the corresponding
215 funding needs of the comprehensive plan in the department’s work
216 program, and the local governmental entity shall include the
217 same in its capital comprehensive plan and appropriate fiscal
218 year budget The amount of reimbursement to the local
219 governmental entity may not exceed $1.4 million in any state
220 fiscal year.
221 e. At the end of the term of the interlocal agreement, the
222 ownership and title of all fire, rescue, and emergency equipment
223 purchased with state funds and used at the fire station during
224 the term of the interlocal agreement transfers to the state.
225 Section 7. Subsection (5) is added to section 339.08,
226 Florida Statutes, to read:
227 339.08 Use of moneys in State Transportation Trust Fund.—
228 (5) The department may not expend any state funds as
229 described in s. 215.31 to support a project or program of any of
230 the following entities:
231 (a) A public transit provider as defined in s. 341.031(1);
232 (b) An authority created pursuant to chapter 343, chapter
233 348, or chapter 349;
234 (c) A public-use airport as defined in s. 332.004; or
235 (d) A port listed in s. 311.09(1),
236
237 which is found in violation of s. 381.00316. The department
238 shall withhold state funds until the public transit provider,
239 authority, public-use airport, or port is found in compliance
240 with s. 381.00316.
241 Section 8. Section 339.0803, Florida Statutes, is amended
242 to read:
243 339.0803 Allocation of increased revenues derived from
244 amendments to s. 320.08 by ch. 2019-43.—
245 (1) Beginning in the 2021-2022 fiscal year and each fiscal
246 year thereafter, funds that result from increased revenues to
247 the State Transportation Trust Fund derived from the amendments
248 to s. 320.08 made by chapter 2019-43, Laws of Florida, and
249 deposited into the fund pursuant to s. 320.20(5)(a) must be used
250 to fund arterial highway projects identified by the department
251 in accordance with s. 339.65 and may be used for projects as
252 specified in ss. 339.66 and 339.67. For purposes of the funding
253 provided in this section, the department shall prioritize use of
254 existing facilities or portions thereof when upgrading arterial
255 highways to limited or controlled access facilities. However,
256 this section does not preclude use of the funding for projects
257 that enhance the capacity of an arterial highway. The funds
258 allocated as provided in this section shall be in addition to
259 any other statutory funding allocations provided by law.
260 (2) Revenues deposited into the State Transportation Trust
261 Fund pursuant to s. 320.20(5)(a) shall first be available for
262 appropriation for payments under a service contract entered into
263 with the Florida Department of Transportation Financing
264 Corporation pursuant to s. 339.0809(4) to fund arterial highway
265 projects. For the corporation’s bonding purposes, two or more
266 such projects in the department’s adopted work program may be
267 treated as a single project.
268 Section 9. Subsection (13) of section 339.0809, Florida
269 Statutes, is amended, and subsection (14) is added to that
270 section, to read:
271 339.0809 Florida Department of Transportation Financing
272 Corporation.—
273 (13) The department may enter into a service contract in
274 conjunction with the issuance of debt obligations as provided in
275 this section which provides for periodic payments for debt
276 service or other amounts payable with respect to debt
277 obligations, plus any administrative expenses of the Florida
278 Department of Transportation Financing Corporation. Funds
279 appropriated for payments under a service contract shall be
280 available after funds pledged to payment on bonds, but before
281 other statutorily required distributions.
282 (14) The department may enter into a service contract to
283 finance the projects authorized in s. 215 of chapter 2023-239,
284 Laws of Florida, and in budget amendment EOG #2024-B0112, and
285 subsequently adopted into the 5-year work program. Service
286 contract payments may not exceed 7 percent of the funds
287 deposited in the State Transportation Trust Fund in each fiscal
288 year. The annual payments under such service contract shall be
289 included in the department’s work program and legislative budget
290 request developed pursuant to s. 339.135. The department shall
291 ensure that the annual payments are programmed for the life of
292 the service contract before execution of the service contract
293 and shall remain programmed until fully paid.
294 Section 10. Notwithstanding s. 215 of chapter 2023-239,
295 Laws of Florida, the Department of Transportation is authorized
296 to retain the interest earnings on funds appropriated to finance
297 the projects authorized in s. 215 of chapter 2023-239, Laws of
298 Florida, and in EOG# 2024-B0112 and subsequently adopted into
299 the 5-year work program. The interest earnings must be used by
300 the department to implement such projects.
301 Section 11. Subsection (8) is added to section 339.2818,
302 Florida Statutes, to read:
303 339.2818 Small County Outreach Program.—
304 (8) Subject to a specific appropriation in addition to
305 funds appropriated for projects under this section, a local
306 government either wholly or partially within the Everglades
307 Agricultural Area as defined in s. 373.4592(15), the Peace River
308 Basin, or the Suwannee River Basin may compete for additional
309 funding using the criteria listed in paragraph (4)(c) at up to
310 100 percent of project costs on state or county roads used
311 primarily as farm-to-market connections between rural
312 agricultural areas and market distribution centers, excluding
313 capacity improvement projects.
314 Section 12. Subsection (6) of section 341.051, Florida
315 Statutes, is amended, paragraphs (c) and (d) are added to
316 subsection (2) of that section, and subsection (8) is added to
317 that section, to read:
318 341.051 Administration and financing of public transit and
319 intercity bus service programs and projects.—
320 (2) PUBLIC TRANSIT PLAN.—
321 (c) Any lane elimination or lane repurposing,
322 recommendation, or application relating to public transit
323 projects must be approved by a two-thirds vote of the transit
324 authority board in a public meeting to be held after a 30-day
325 public notice.
326 (d) Any action of eminent domain for acquisition of public
327 transit facilities carried out by a public transit provider must
328 be discussed by the public transit provider at a public meeting
329 to be held after a 30-day public notice.
330 (6) ANNUAL APPROPRIATION.—
331 (a) Funds paid into the State Transportation Trust Fund
332 pursuant to s. 201.15 for the New Starts Transit Program are
333 hereby annually appropriated for expenditure to support the New
334 Starts Transit Program.
335 (b) The remaining unallocated New Starts Transit Program
336 funds as of June 30, 2024, shall be reallocated for the purpose
337 of the Strategic Intermodal System within the State
338 Transportation Trust Fund. This paragraph expires June 30, 2026.
339 (8) EXTERIOR VEHICLE WRAP, TINTING, PAINT, MARKETING, AND
340 ADVERTISING.—
341 (a) As a condition of receiving funds from the department,
342 a public transit provider may not expend department funds for
343 marketing or advertising activities, including any wrap,
344 tinting, paint, or other medium displayed, attached, or affixed
345 on a bus, commercial motor vehicle, or motor vehicle that is
346 owned, leased, or operated by the public transit provider. Such
347 vehicles are limited to displaying a brand or logo of the public
348 transit provider, the official seal of the jurisdictional
349 governmental entity, or a state agency public service
350 announcement.
351 (b) The department shall incorporate guidelines for the
352 marketing or advertising activities allowed under paragraph (a)
353 in the public transportation grant agreement entered into with
354 each public transit provider.
355 (c) Any new wrap, tinting, paint, medium, or advertisement
356 on the passenger windows of a vehicle used by a public transit
357 provider may not be darker than the legally allowed window
358 tinting requirements provided in s. 316.2954.
359
360 For purposes of this section, the term “net operating costs”
361 means all operating costs of a project less any federal funds,
362 fares, or other sources of income to the project.
363 Section 13. Subsection (4) is added to section 341.071,
364 Florida Statutes, to read:
365 341.071 Transit productivity and performance measures;
366 reports.—
367 (4)(a) As used in this subsection, the term:
368 1. “General administrative costs” includes, but is not
369 limited to, costs related to transit service development,
370 injuries and damages, safety, personnel administration, legal
371 services, data processing, finance and accounting, purchasing
372 and stores, engineering, real estate management, office
373 management and services, customer service, promotion, market
374 research, and planning. The term does not include insurance
375 costs.
376 2. “Public transit provider” means a public agency
377 providing public transit service, including an authority created
378 pursuant to part II of chapter 343 or chapter 349. The term does
379 not apply to the Central Florida Commuter Rail Commission or the
380 authority created pursuant to part I of chapter 343.
381 3. “Tier 1 provider” has the same meaning as in 49 C.F.R.
382 part 625.
383 4. “Tier 2 provider” has the same meaning as in 49 C.F.R.
384 part 625.
385 (b) Beginning November 1, 2024, and annually thereafter,
386 each public transit provider, during a publicly noticed meeting,
387 shall:
388 1. Certify that its budgeted and general administrative
389 costs are not greater than 20 percent above the annual state
390 average of administrative costs for its respective tier.
391 2. Present a line-item budget report of its budgeted and
392 actual general administrative costs.
393 3. Disclose all salaried executive management-level
394 employees’ total compensation packages, ridership performance
395 and metrics, and any gift as defined in s. 112.312 accepted in
396 exchange for contracts. This disclosure shall be posted annually
397 on the public transit provider’s website.
398 (c) To support compliance with paragraph (b), the
399 department shall determine, by tier, the annual state average of
400 general administrative costs by determining the percentage of
401 the total operating budget which is expended on general
402 administrative costs in this state annually by March 31 to
403 inform the public transit provider’s budget for the following
404 fiscal year. Upon review and certification by the department,
405 costs budgeted and expended in association with nontransit
406 related engineering and construction services may be excluded.
407 (d) A year-over-year cumulative increase of 5 percent or
408 more in general administrative costs must be reviewed before the
409 start of the next fiscal year and must be reviewed and approved
410 by the department before approval by the public transportation
411 provider’s governing board.
412 Section 14. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
413 341.822, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
414 341.822 Powers and duties.—
415 (2)(a) In addition to the powers granted to the department,
416 the enterprise has full authority to exercise all powers granted
417 to it under this chapter. Powers shall include, but are not
418 limited to, the ability to plan, construct, maintain, repair,
419 and operate a high-speed rail system, to acquire corridors, and
420 to coordinate the development and operation of publicly funded
421 passenger rail systems in the state, and to preserve and acquire
422 future rail corridors and rights-of-way in coordination with the
423 department’s planning of the State Highway System.
424 Section 15. Paragraph (e) of subsection (1) of section
425 768.1382, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
426 768.1382 Streetlights, security lights, and other similar
427 illumination; limitation on liability.—
428 (1) As used in this section, the term:
429 (e) “Streetlight provider” means the state or any of the
430 state’s officers, agencies, or instrumentalities, any political
431 subdivision as defined in s. 1.01, any public utility as defined
432 in s. 366.02(8), or any electric utility as defined in s.
433 366.02(4). For purposes of this section, electric utility shall
434 include subsidiaries of an electric utility, regardless of
435 whether the electric utility or subsidiary is providing electric
436 street light service inside or outside of its regulated
437 territory.
438 Section 16. This act shall take effect July 1, 2024.
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440 And the title is amended as follows:
441 Delete everything before the enacting clause
442 and insert:
443 A bill to be entitled
444 An act relating to the Department of Transportation;
445 amending s. 20.23, F.S.; removing the requirement that
446 the Secretary of Transportation be nominated by the
447 Florida Transportation Commission; revising the list
448 of areas of program responsibility within the
449 Department of Transportation; deleting the requirement
450 that the secretary of the department appoint the
451 department’s inspector general and that he or she be
452 directly responsible to the secretary; amending s.
453 311.101, F.S.; requiring that a specified amount of
454 recurring funds from the State Transportation Trust
455 Fund be made available for the Intermodal Logistics
456 Center Infrastructure Support Program; requiring the
457 department to include specified projects in its
458 tentative work program; amending s. 334.046, F.S.;
459 revising provisions relating to the department’s
460 mission, goals, and objectives; creating s. 334.61,
461 F.S.; requiring governmental entities that propose
462 certain projects to conduct a traffic study; requiring
463 the governmental entity to give notice of a decision
464 to continue with the design phase of a project to
465 property owners, impacted municipalities, and counties
466 affected by such projects within a specified
467 timeframe; providing notice requirements; requiring
468 such governmental entities to hold a public meeting,
469 with a specified period of prior notice, before
470 completion of the design phase of such projects;
471 providing requirements for such public meetings;
472 requiring such governmental entities to review and
473 take into consideration comments and alternatives
474 presented in public meetings in the final project
475 design; amending s. 338.231, F.S.; revising the length
476 of time before which an inactive prepaid toll account
477 becomes unclaimed property; amending s. 338.26, F.S.;
478 providing that a specified interlocal agreement
479 related to the Alligator Alley toll road controls the
480 use of certain State Transportation Trust Fund moneys
481 until the local governmental entity and the department
482 enter into a new agreement or agree to extend the
483 existing agreement; limiting the amount of
484 reimbursement for the 2024-2025 fiscal year; requiring
485 the local governmental entity, by a specified date and
486 at specified intervals thereafter, to provide a
487 maintenance and operations comprehensive plan to the
488 department; providing requirements for the
489 comprehensive plan; requiring the local governmental
490 entity and the department to review and adopt the
491 comprehensive plan as part of the interlocal
492 agreement; requiring the department, in accordance
493 with certain projections, to include the corresponding
494 funding needs in the department’s work program;
495 requiring the local governmental entity to include
496 such needs in its capital comprehensive plan and
497 appropriate fiscal year budge; requiring that
498 ownership and title of certain equipment purchased
499 with state funds and used at a specified fire station
500 during the term of the interlocal agreement transfer
501 to the state at the end of the term of the agreement;
502 amending s. 339.08, F.S.; prohibiting the department
503 from expending state funds to support a project or
504 program of specified entities; requiring the
505 department to withhold state funds until such entities
506 are in compliance with a specified provision; amending
507 s. 339.0803, F.S.; prioritizing availability of
508 certain revenues deposited into the State
509 Transportation Trust Fund for payments under service
510 contracts with the Florida Department of
511 Transportation Financing Corporation to fund arterial
512 highway projects; providing that two or more such
513 projects may be treated as a single project for
514 certain purposes; amending s. 339.0809, F.S.;
515 specifying availability of funds appropriated for
516 payments under a service contract with the
517 corporation; authorizing the department to enter into
518 service contracts to finance certain projects;
519 providing requirements for annual service contract
520 payments; requiring the department, before execution
521 of a service contract, to ensure that annual payments
522 are programmed for the life of the contract and to
523 ensure that they remain programmed until fully paid;
524 authorizing the department to retain interest earnings
525 on specified appropriations; requiring such interest
526 earnings to be spent on specified projects; amending
527 s. 339.2818, F.S.; authorizing, subject to
528 appropriation, a local government within a specified
529 area to compete for funding using specified criteria
530 on specified roads; providing an exception; amending
531 s. 341.051, F.S.; providing voting and meeting notice
532 requirements for specified public transit projects;
533 providing meeting notice requirements for discussion
534 of specified actions by a public transit provider;
535 requiring that certain unallocated funds for the New
536 Starts Transit Program be reallocated for the purpose
537 of the Strategic Intermodal System; providing for
538 expiration of the reallocation; prohibiting, as a
539 condition of receiving state funds, public transit
540 providers from expending such funds for specified
541 marketing or advertising activities; requiring the
542 department to incorporate certain guidelines in the
543 public transportation grant agreement entered into
544 with each public transit provider; prohibiting certain
545 wraps, tinting, paint, media, or advertisements on
546 passenger windows of public transit provider vehicles
547 from being darker than certain window tinting
548 requirements; amending s. 341.071, F.S.; defining
549 terms; beginning on a specified date and annually
550 thereafter, requiring each public transit provider to
551 take specified actions during a publicly noticed
552 meeting; requiring that a certain disclosure be posted
553 on public transit providers’ websites; requiring the
554 department to determine the annual state average of
555 general administrative costs; authorizing certain
556 costs to be excluded from such annual state average;
557 requiring a specified increase in general
558 administrative costs to be reviewed and approved by
559 certain entities; amending s. 341.822, F.S.; revising
560 the powers of the Florida Rail Enterprise; amending s.
561 768.1382, F.S.; revising the definition of the term
562 “streetlight provider”; providing an effective date.
563