House Bill 3529

    Florida House of Representatives - 1998                HB 3529

        By Representatives Trovillion, Feeney, Reddick, Sembler
    and Bronson





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to regional planning councils;

  3         amending s. 186.504, F.S.; prescribing

  4         membership in the councils; providing an

  5         effective date.

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

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  9         Section 1.  Section 186.504, Florida Statutes, is

10  amended to read:

11         186.504  Regional planning councils; creation;

12  membership.--

13         (1)  A regional planning council shall be created in

14  each of the several comprehensive planning districts of the

15  state. Only one agency shall exercise the responsibilities

16  granted herein within the geographic boundaries of any one

17  comprehensive planning district.

18         (2)  Membership on the regional planning council shall

19  be as follows:

20         (a)  Representatives appointed by each of the member

21  counties in the geographic area covered by the regional

22  planning council.

23         (a)(b)  Representatives appointed by each of the from

24  other member local general-purpose governments in the

25  geographic area covered by the regional planning council which

26  choose to be members.

27         (b)(c)  Representatives appointed by the Governor from

28  the geographic area covered by the regional planning council.

29         (3)  Not less than two-thirds of the representatives

30  serving as voting members on the governing bodies of such

31  regional planning councils shall be elected officials of local

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  1  general-purpose governments chosen by the cities and counties

  2  of the region, provided each local general-purpose government

  3  that is a member county shall have at least one vote.  The

  4  remaining one-third of the voting members on the governing

  5  board shall be appointed by the Governor, subject to

  6  confirmation by the Senate, and shall reside in the region.

  7  No two appointees of the Governor shall have their places of

  8  residence in the same county until each county within the

  9  region is represented by a Governor's appointee to the

10  governing board. Nothing contained in this section shall deny

11  to local governing bodies or the Governor the option of

12  appointing either locally elected officials or lay citizens

13  provided at least two-thirds of the governing body of the

14  regional planning council is composed of locally elected

15  officials.

16         (4)  In addition to voting members appointed pursuant

17  to paragraph (2)(c), the Governor shall appoint the following

18  ex officio nonvoting members to each regional planning

19  council:

20         (a)  A representative of the Department of

21  Transportation.

22         (b)  A representative of the Department of

23  Environmental Protection.

24         (c)  A representative of the Department of Commerce.

25         (c)(d)  A representative of the appropriate water

26  management district or districts.

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28  The Governor may also appoint ex officio nonvoting members

29  representing appropriate metropolitan planning organizations

30  and regional water supply authorities.

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  1         (5)  Nothing contained in this act shall be construed

  2  to mandate county or municipal government membership or

  3  participation in a regional planning council.  However, each

  4  county shall be a member of the regional planning council

  5  created within the comprehensive planning district

  6  encompassing the county.

  7         (6)  The existing regional planning council in each of

  8  the several comprehensive planning districts shall be

  9  designated as the regional planning council specified under

10  subsections (1)-(5), provided the council agrees to meet the

11  membership criteria specified therein and is a regional

12  planning council organized under either s. 163.01 or s. 163.02

13  or chapter 160.

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

15  law.

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18                          SENATE SUMMARY

19    Deletes the requirement that a county must be a member of
      a regional planning council. Provides that
20    representatives on such council may be appointed by a
      local general-purpose government in the geographic area
21    covered by a regional planning council which chooses to
      be a member of the council.
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