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    By Senator Dyer





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  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the rulemaking authority of

  3         the Department of Community Affairs and the

  4         Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission

  5         (RAB); creating s. 14.2025, F.S.; creating the

  6         Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory Commission

  7         and authorizing the commission to adopt rules;

  8         amending s. 163.3177, F.S.; including debt

  9         management standards in local capital

10         improvements elements; providing local

11         comprehensive planning periods; amending s.

12         163.3184, F.S.; specifying agencies for

13         comprehensive plan amendment review; allowing

14         for adoption of separate and distinguished plan

15         amendments; providing for municipal review of

16         plan amendments that affect municipal plans;

17         authorizing a schedule for agency review of

18         comprehensive plans and plan amendments;

19         ensuring conformity with the uniform rules of

20         procedure; amending s. 163.3191, F.S.;

21         providing for copies of submitted evaluation

22         and appraisal reports; providing for local

23         governments to request substantive comments

24         during sufficiency review of evaluation and

25         appraisal reports; providing for requests for

26         delegation of review of evaluation and

27         appraisal reports; amending s. 163.3202, F.S.;

28         clarifying that all municipalities adopt land

29         development regulations to implement municipal

30         plans and plan amendments; providing for notice

31         by the department of the need to adopt required

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  1         land development regulations; supplementing

  2         authority to adopt rules to allow schedules for

  3         adoption of required land development

  4         regulations; amending s. 380.06, F.S.; allowing

  5         the department to issue clearance letters, upon

  6         request, as to whether a development may be

  7         required to undergo

  8         development-of-regional-impact review;

  9         preventing reviewing agencies from objecting to

10         the use of assumptions and methodologies agreed

11         upon during preapplication procedures; allowing

12         for another preapplication conference to be

13         held if an application for development approval

14         is not submitted within 1 year; supplementing

15         authority to adopt rules to include criteria

16         for abandonment of developments of regional

17         impact; amending s. 380.061, F.S.;

18         supplementing authority to adopt rules for

19         Florida Quality Development annual reports and

20         criteria for determining a substantial change

21         to an approved Florida Quality Development;

22         amending s. 380.07, F.S.; supplementing

23         authority to adopt rules regarding development

24         orders in designated areas of critical state

25         concern; amending s. 380.22, F.S.;

26         supplementing authority to adopt rules to

27         include procedures and criteria for evaluation

28         of subgrant applications under the federal

29         Coastal Zone Management Act; providing an

30         effective date.

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  1  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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  3         Section 1.  Section 14.2025, Florida Statutes, is

  4  created to read:

  5         14.2025  Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory

  6  Commission.--There is created as part of the Executive Office

  7  of the Governor the Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory

  8  Commission composed of the Governor and Cabinet. The Governor

  9  is chair of the commission. The Governor or Secretary of State

10  may call a meeting of the commission each time the need

11  therefor arises. The commission shall adopt rules in

12  accordance with chapter 120 to carry out its powers and

13  duties.

14         Section 2.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) and

15  subsection (5) of section 163.3177, Florida Statutes, are

16  amended to read:

17         163.3177  Required and optional elements of

18  comprehensive plan; studies and surveys.--

19         (3)(a)  The comprehensive plan shall contain a capital

20  improvements element designed to consider the need for and the

21  location of public facilities in order to encourage the

22  efficient utilization of such facilities and set forth:

23         1.  A component which outlines principles for

24  construction, extension, or increase in capacity of public

25  facilities, as well as a component which outlines principles

26  for correcting existing public facility deficiencies, which

27  are necessary to implement the comprehensive plan.  The

28  components shall cover at least a 5-year period.

29         2.  Estimated public facility costs, including a

30  delineation of when facilities will be needed, the general

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  1  location of the facilities, and projected revenue sources to

  2  fund the facilities.

  3         3.  Standards to ensure the availability of public

  4  facilities and the adequacy of those facilities including

  5  acceptable levels of service.

  6         4.  Standards for the management of debt.

  7         (5)(a)  Each local government comprehensive plan must

  8  include at least two planning periods, one covering at least

  9  the first 5-year period occurring after the plan's adoption

10  and one covering at least a 10-year period.

11         (b)  The comprehensive plan and its elements shall

12  contain policy recommendations for the implementation of the

13  plan and its elements.

14         Section 3.  Subsections (3), (4), and (5), paragraph

15  (c) of subsection (6), and paragraph (b) of subsection (9) of

16  section 163.3184, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

17         163.3184  Process for adoption of comprehensive plan or

18  plan amendment.--

19         (3)  LOCAL GOVERNMENT TRANSMITTAL OF PROPOSED PLAN OR

20  AMENDMENT.--

21         (a)  Each local governing body shall transmit the

22  complete proposed comprehensive plan or plan amendment to the

23  state land planning agency, the appropriate regional planning

24  council and water management district, the Department of

25  Environmental Protection, and the Department of Transportation

26  immediately following a public hearing pursuant to subsection

27  (15) as specified in the state land planning agency's

28  procedural rules. The local governing body shall also transmit

29  a copy of the complete proposed comprehensive plan or plan

30  amendment to any other unit of local government or government

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  1  agency in the state that has filed a written request with the

  2  governing body for the plan or plan amendment.

  3         (b)  A local governing body shall not transmit portions

  4  of a plan or plan amendment unless it has previously provided

  5  to all state agencies designated by the state land planning

  6  agency a complete copy of its adopted comprehensive plan

  7  pursuant to subsection (7) and as specified in the agency's

  8  procedural rules. In the case of comprehensive plan

  9  amendments, the local governing body shall transmit to the

10  state land planning agency, the appropriate regional planning

11  council and water management district, the Department of

12  Environmental Protection, and the Department of Transportation

13  the materials specified in the state land planning agency's

14  procedural rules and, in cases in which the plan amendment is

15  a result of an evaluation and appraisal report adopted

16  pursuant to s. 163.3191, a copy of the evaluation and

17  appraisal report. Local governing bodies shall consolidate all

18  proposed plan amendments into a single submission for each of

19  the two plan amendment adoption dates during the calendar year

20  pursuant to s. 163.3187.

21         (c)  A local government may adopt a proposed plan

22  amendment previously transmitted pursuant to this subsection,

23  unless review is requested or otherwise initiated pursuant to

24  subsection (6).

25         (d)  In cases in which a local government transmits

26  multiple individual amendments that can be clearly and legally

27  separated and distinguished for the purpose of determining

28  whether to review the proposed amendment, and the state land

29  planning agency elects to review several or a portion of the

30  amendments and the local government chooses to immediately

31  adopt the remaining amendments not reviewed, the amendments

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  1  immediately adopted and any reviewed amendments that the local

  2  government subsequently adopts together constitute one

  3  amendment cycle in accordance with s. 163.3187(1).

  4         (4)  INTERGOVERNMENTAL REVIEW.--If review of a proposed

  5  comprehensive plan amendment is requested or otherwise

  6  initiated pursuant to subsection (6), the state land planning

  7  agency within 5 working days of determining that such a review

  8  will be conducted shall transmit a copy of the proposed plan

  9  amendment to various government agencies, as appropriate, for

10  response or comment, including, but not limited to, the

11  Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of

12  Transportation, the water management district, and the

13  regional planning council, and, in the case of municipal

14  plans, to the county land planning agency.  These governmental

15  agencies shall provide comments to the state land planning

16  agency within 30 days after receipt of the proposed plan

17  amendment.  The appropriate regional planning council shall

18  also provide its written comments to the state land planning

19  agency within 30 days after receipt of the proposed plan

20  amendment and shall specify any objections, recommendations

21  for modifications, and comments of any other regional agencies

22  to which the regional planning council may have referred the

23  proposed plan amendment.

24         (5)  REGIONAL, AND COUNTY, AND MUNICIPAL REVIEW.--The

25  review of the regional planning council pursuant to subsection

26  (4) shall be limited to effects on regional resources or

27  facilities identified in the strategic regional policy plan

28  and extrajurisdictional impacts which would be inconsistent

29  with the comprehensive plan of the affected local government.

30  However, any inconsistency between a local plan or plan

31  amendment and a strategic regional policy plan must not be the

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  1  sole basis for a notice of intent to find a local plan or plan

  2  amendment not in compliance with this act.  A regional

  3  planning council shall not review and comment on a proposed

  4  comprehensive plan it prepared itself unless the plan has been

  5  changed by the local government subsequent to the preparation

  6  of the plan by the regional planning agency. The review of the

  7  county land planning agency pursuant to subsection (4) shall

  8  be primarily in the context of the relationship and effect of

  9  the proposed plan amendment on any county comprehensive plan

10  element. Any review by municipalities will be primarily in the

11  context of the relationship and effect on the municipal plan.

12         (6)  STATE LAND PLANNING AGENCY REVIEW.--

13         (c)  The state land planning agency shall establish by

14  rule a schedule for, upon receipt of comments from the various

15  government agencies pursuant to subsection (4). The state land

16  planning agency, shall have 30 days to review comments from

17  the various government agencies along with a local

18  government's comprehensive plan or plan amendment.  During

19  that period, the state land planning agency shall transmit in

20  writing its comments to the local government along with any

21  objections and any recommendations for modifications.  When a

22  federal, state, or regional agency has implemented a

23  permitting program, the state land planning agency shall not

24  require a local government to duplicate or exceed that

25  permitting program in its comprehensive plan or to implement

26  such a permitting program in its land development regulations.

27  Nothing contained herein shall prohibit the state land

28  planning agency in conducting its review of local plans or

29  plan amendments from making objections, recommendations, and

30  comments or making compliance determinations regarding

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  1  densities and intensities consistent with the provisions of

  2  this part.

  3         (9)  PROCESS IF LOCAL PLAN OR AMENDMENT IS IN

  4  COMPLIANCE.--

  5         (b)  The hearing shall be conducted by an

  6  administrative law judge of the Division of Administrative

  7  Hearings of the Department of Management Services, who shall

  8  hold the hearing in the county of and convenient to the

  9  affected local jurisdiction and submit a recommended order to

10  the state land planning agency.  The state land planning

11  agency shall allow 10 days for the filing of exceptions to the

12  recommended order and shall issue a final order within 30 days

13  after receipt of the recommended order if the state land

14  planning agency determines that the plan or plan amendment is

15  in compliance. If the state land planning agency determines

16  that the plan or plan amendment is not in compliance, the

17  agency shall submit, within 30 days after receipt, the

18  recommended order to the Administration Commission for final

19  agency action.

20         Section 4.  Subsections (4), (9), and (10) of section

21  163.3191, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

22         163.3191  Evaluation and appraisal of comprehensive

23  plan.--

24         (4)  The governing body shall adopt, or adopt with

25  changes, the report or portions thereof within 90 days after

26  receiving it from the local planning agency.  The governing

27  body shall amend its comprehensive plan based on the

28  recommendations contained in the adopted evaluation and

29  appraisal report, pursuant to the procedures in ss. 163.3184,

30  163.3187, and 163.3189. Amendments to the plan and the

31  adoption of the report may be simultaneous. When amendments to

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  1  the plan do not occur simultaneously with the adoption of the

  2  evaluation and appraisal report, the report shall contain a

  3  schedule for adoption of proposed amendments within 1 year

  4  after the report is adopted, except that the state land

  5  planning agency may grant a 6-month extension for adoption of

  6  such plan amendments if the request is justified by good and

  7  sufficient cause as determined by the agency. Three copies of

  8  the report shall be transmitted to the state land planning

  9  agency, with the related amendments when the amendments are

10  transmitted pursuant to s. 163.3184.

11         (9)  The state land planning agency shall conduct a

12  sufficiency review of each report to determine whether it has

13  been submitted in a timely fashion and contains the prescribed

14  components.  The agency shall complete the sufficiency

15  determination within 60 days of receipt of the report. The

16  agency shall not conduct a compliance review. However, a local

17  government may request that the department provide substantive

18  comments regarding the report or addendum during the

19  department's sufficiency review to assist the local government

20  in the adoption of its plan amendments based on the evaluation

21  and appraisal report. Comments provided during the sufficiency

22  review are not binding on the local government or the

23  department, and will not supplant or limit the department's

24  consistency review of the amendments based on the adopted

25  evaluation and appraisal report. A request for comments must

26  be made in writing by the local government and must be

27  submitted at the same time the adopted report is submitted for

28  sufficiency review.

29         (10)  The state land planning agency may delegate the

30  review of reports to the appropriate regional planning

31  council. When the review has been delegated to a regional

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  1  planning council, any local government in the region, except

  2  for areas of critical state concern, may elect to have its

  3  report reviewed by the council rather than the agency. The

  4  agency shall adopt rules for accepting requests for delegation

  5  and for uniform and adequate review of reports. The agency and

  6  shall retain oversight for any delegation of review to a

  7  regional planning council.  Any plan amendment recommended by

  8  the report shall be reviewed by the agency pursuant to s.

  9  163.3184 and be adopted by the local government pursuant to s.

10  163.3189.

11         Section 5.  Subsections (1), (4), and (5) of section

12  163.3202, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

13         163.3202  Land development regulations.--

14         (1)  Within 1 year after submission of its revised

15  comprehensive plan for review pursuant to s. 163.3167(2), each

16  county and, each municipality required to include a coastal

17  management element in its comprehensive plan pursuant to s.

18  163.3177(6)(g), and each other municipality in this state

19  shall adopt or amend and enforce land development regulations

20  that are consistent with and implement their adopted

21  comprehensive plan.

22         (4)  The state land planning agency may require a local

23  government to submit one or more land development regulations,

24  if it has reasonable grounds to believe that a local

25  government has totally failed to adopt any one or more of the

26  land development regulations required by this section.  Once

27  If the state land planning agency determines after review and

28  consultation with local government whether that the local

29  government has adopted failed to adopt regulations required by

30  this section, the state land planning agency shall notify the

31  local government in writing within 30 calendar days after

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  1  receipt of the regulations from the local government. If the

  2  state land planning agency determines that the local

  3  government has failed to adopt regulations required by this

  4  section, it may institute an action in circuit court to

  5  require adoption of these regulations.  This action shall not

  6  review compliance of adopted regulations with this section or

  7  consistency with locally adopted plans.

  8         (5)  The state land planning agency shall adopt rules

  9  for review and schedules for adoption of land development

10  regulations.

11         Section 6.  Paragraph (i) is added to subsection (4) of

12  section 380.06, Florida Statutes, and subsections (7) and (26)

13  of that section are amended to read:

14         380.06  Developments of regional impact.--

15         (4)  BINDING LETTER.--

16         (i)  In response to an inquiry from a developer, the

17  state land planning agency may issue an informal determination

18  in the form of a clearance letter as to whether a development

19  is required to undergo development-of-regional-impact review.

20  A clearance letter may be based solely on the information

21  provided by the developer, and the state land planning agency

22  is not required to conduct an investigation of that

23  information. If any material information provided by the

24  developer is incomplete or inaccurate, the clearance letter is

25  not binding upon the state land planning agency. A clearance

26  letter does not constitute final agency action.

27         (7)  PREAPPLICATION PROCEDURES.--

28         (a)  Before filing an application for development

29  approval, the developer shall contact the regional planning

30  agency with jurisdiction over the proposed development to

31  arrange a preapplication conference.  Upon the request of the

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  1  developer or the regional planning agency, other affected

  2  state and regional agencies shall participate in this

  3  conference and shall identify the types of permits issued by

  4  the agencies, the level of information required, and the

  5  permit issuance procedures as applied to the proposed

  6  development.  The regional planning agency shall provide the

  7  developer information about the development-of-regional-impact

  8  process and the use of preapplication conferences to identify

  9  issues, coordinate appropriate state and local agency

10  requirements, and otherwise promote a proper and efficient

11  review of the proposed development. If agreement is reached

12  regarding assumptions and methodology to be used in the

13  application for development approval, the reviewing agencies

14  may not subsequently object to those assumptions and

15  methodologies unless subsequent changes to the project or

16  information obtained during the review make those assumptions

17  and methodologies inappropriate.

18         (b)  The regional planning agency shall establish by

19  rule a procedure by which a developer may enter into binding

20  written agreements with the regional planning agency to

21  eliminate questions from the application for development

22  approval when those questions are found to be unnecessary for

23  development-of-regional-impact review.  It is the legislative

24  intent of this subsection to encourage reduction of paperwork,

25  to discourage unnecessary gathering of data, and to encourage

26  the coordination of the development-of-regional-impact review

27  process with federal, state, and local environmental reviews

28  when such reviews are required by law.

29         (c)  If the application for development approval is not

30  submitted within 1 year after the date of the preapplication

31  conference, the regional planning agency, the local government

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  1  having jurisdiction, or the applicant may request that another

  2  preapplication conference be held.

  3         (26)  ABANDONMENT OF DEVELOPMENTS OF REGIONAL

  4  IMPACT.--There is hereby established a process to abandon a

  5  development of regional impact and its associated development

  6  orders.  A development of regional impact and its associated

  7  development orders may be proposed to be abandoned by the

  8  owner or developer.  The local government in which the

  9  development of regional impact is located also may propose to

10  abandon the development of regional impact, provided that the

11  local government gives individual written notice to each

12  development-of-regional-impact owner and developer of record,

13  and provided that no such owner or developer objects in

14  writing to the local government prior to or at the public

15  hearing pertaining to abandonment of the development of

16  regional impact. The state land planning agency is authorized

17  to promulgate rules that which shall include, but not be

18  limited to, criteria for determining whether to grant, grant

19  with conditions, or deny a proposal to abandon, and provisions

20  to ensure that the developer satisfies all applicable

21  conditions of the development order and adequately mitigates

22  for the impacts of the development. If there is no existing

23  development within the development of regional impact at the

24  time of abandonment and no development within the development

25  of regional impact is proposed by the owner or developer after

26  such abandonment, an abandonment order shall not require the

27  owner or developer to contribute any land, funds, or public

28  facilities as a condition of such abandonment order.  The

29  rules shall also provide a procedure for filing notice of the

30  abandonment pursuant to s. 28.222 with the clerk of the

31  circuit court for each county in which the development of

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  1  regional impact is located.  Any decision by a local

  2  government concerning the abandonment of a development of

  3  regional impact shall be subject to an appeal pursuant to s.

  4  380.07.  The issues in any such appeal shall be confined to

  5  whether the provisions of this subsection or any rules

  6  promulgated thereunder have been satisfied.

  7         Section 7.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (8) of section

  8  380.061, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

  9         380.061  The Florida Quality Developments program.--

10         (8)

11         (b)  The department shall adopt, by rule, standards and

12  procedures necessary to implement the Florida Quality

13  Developments program. The rules must include, but need not be

14  limited to, provisions governing annual reports and criteria

15  for determining whether a proposed change to an approved

16  Florida Quality Development is a substantial change requiring

17  further review.

18         Section 8.  Section 380.07, Florida Statutes, is

19  amended to read:

20         380.07  Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory

21  Commission.--

22         (1)  There is hereby created the Florida Land and Water

23  Adjudicatory Commission, which shall consist of the

24  Administration Commission.

25         (1)(2)  Whenever any local government issues any

26  development order in any area of critical state concern, or in

27  regard to any development of regional impact, copies of such

28  orders as prescribed by rule by the state land planning agency

29  shall be transmitted to the state land planning agency, the

30  regional planning agency, and the owner or developer of the

31  property affected by such order. The state land planning

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  1  agency shall adopt rules describing development order

  2  rendition and effectiveness in designated areas of critical

  3  state concern. Within 45 days after the order is rendered, the

  4  owner, the developer, or the state land planning agency may

  5  appeal the order to the Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory

  6  Commission by filing a notice of appeal with the commission.

  7  The appropriate regional planning agency by vote at a

  8  regularly scheduled meeting may recommend that the state land

  9  planning agency undertake an appeal of a

10  development-of-regional-impact development order. Upon the

11  request of an appropriate regional planning council, affected

12  local government, or any citizen, the state land planning

13  agency shall consider whether to appeal the order and shall

14  respond to the request within the 45-day appeal period.  Any

15  appeal taken by a regional planning agency between March 1,

16  1993, and the effective date of this section may only be

17  continued if the state land planning agency has also filed an

18  appeal.  Any appeal initiated by a regional planning agency on

19  or before March 1, 1993, shall continue until completion of

20  the appeal process and any subsequent appellate review, as if

21  the regional planning agency were authorized to initiate the

22  appeal.

23         (2)(3)  The 45-day appeal period for a development of

24  regional impact within the jurisdiction of more than one local

25  government shall not commence until after all the local

26  governments having jurisdiction over the proposed development

27  of regional impact have rendered their development orders.

28  The appellant shall furnish a copy of the notice of appeal to

29  the opposing party, as the case may be, and to the local

30  government which issued the order.  The filing of the notice

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  1  of appeal shall stay the effectiveness of the order until

  2  after the completion of the appeal process.

  3         (3)(4)  Prior to issuing an order, the Florida Land and

  4  Water Adjudicatory Commission shall hold a hearing pursuant to

  5  the provisions of chapter 120.  The commission shall encourage

  6  the submission of appeals on the record made below in cases in

  7  which the development order was issued after a full and

  8  complete hearing before the local government or an agency

  9  thereof.

10         (4)(5)  The Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory

11  Commission shall issue a decision granting or denying

12  permission to develop pursuant to the standards of this

13  chapter and may attach conditions and restrictions to its

14  decisions.

15         (5)(6)  If an appeal is filed with respect to any

16  issues within the scope of a permitting program authorized by

17  chapter 161, chapter 373, or chapter 403 and for which a

18  permit or conceptual review approval has been obtained prior

19  to the issuance of a development order, any such issue shall

20  be specifically identified in the notice of appeal which is

21  filed pursuant to this section, together with other issues

22  which constitute grounds for the appeal. The appeal may

23  proceed with respect to issues within the scope of permitting

24  programs for which a permit or conceptual review approval has

25  been obtained prior to the issuance of a development order

26  only after the commission determines by majority vote at a

27  regularly scheduled commission meeting that statewide or

28  regional interests may be adversely affected by the

29  development.  In making this determination, there shall be a

30  rebuttable presumption that statewide and regional interests

31  relating to issues within the scope of the permitting programs

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  1  for which a permit or conceptual approval has been obtained

  2  are not adversely affected.

  3         Section 9.  Subsection (3) of section 380.22, Florida

  4  Statutes, is amended to read:

  5         380.22  Lead agency authority and duties.--

  6         (3)  The department Secretary of Community Affairs

  7  shall adopt by rule procedures and criteria for the evaluation

  8  of subgrant applications that seek to receive a portion of

  9  those funds allotted to the state under the federal Coastal

10  Zone Management Act a specific formula for allocation of

11  federal funds for the administration of the program.

12         Section 10.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

13  law.

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16                          SENATE SUMMARY

17    Authorizes the Department of Community Affairs to
      supplement and ensure grants of authority to adopt rules
18    and administer specific laws in accordance with chapter
      120. Creates the Florida Land and Water Adjudicatory
19    Commission and authorizes the commission to adopt rules.

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