Senate Bill 1710c1

    Florida Senate - 1998                           CS for SB 1710

    By the Committee on Transportation and Senator Dyer





    306-1956-98

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Central Florida Regional

  3         Transportation Authority (RAB); amending s.

  4         343.64, F.S.; authorizing the authority to

  5         employ personnel and consultants; authorizing a

  6         personnel system; providing for delegation of

  7         authority; providing an effective date.

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

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11         Section 1.  Subsections (4) and (5) are added to

12  section 343.64, Florida Statutes, to read:

13         343.64  Powers and duties.--

14         (4)  The authority may employ a secretary and executive

15  director and such legal, financial, and other professional

16  staff or consultants, technical experts, engineers, and other

17  employees, permanent or temporary, as it may require and may

18  determine the qualifications and fix the compensation of such

19  persons, firms, or corporations.  The authority may establish

20  a personnel system for employees of the authority.

21         (5)  The authority may delegate to one or more of its

22  officers or employees such of its powers as it shall deem

23  necessary to carry out the purposes of this part, subject

24  always to the supervision and control of the authority.

25         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

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CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.






    Florida Senate - 1998                           CS for SB 1710
    306-1956-98




  1          STATEMENT OF SUBSTANTIAL CHANGES CONTAINED IN
                       COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE FOR
  2                         Senate Bill 1710

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  4  The committee substitute removes the provisions of the bill
    which makes the authority a special district and amends s.
  5  343.64, F.S., to give specific legislative authority to have
    employees and the Central Florida Regional Transportation
  6  Authority to establish a personnel system for employees of the
    authority.  The committee substitute provides that the
  7  authority may employ a secretary and executive director and
    other professional staff or consultants, permanent or
  8  temporary, and may determine qualifications and compensation.

  9  The committee substitute further provides that the Central
    Florida Regional Transportation Authority may employ one or
10  more of its officers or employees to carry out a personnel
    system, subject to the supervision and control of the
11  authority.

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