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Senator Hargrett moved the following amendment:
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11 Senator Hargrett moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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17 Section 1. (1) The Department of Highway Safety and
18 Motor Vehicles shall hire an independent expert consultant to
19 develop appropriate request-for-proposal specifications and a
20 range of inspection fees for the motor vehicle emissions
21 inspection program based on an annual and a biennial
22 inspection program for vehicles 4 model years old and older,
23 using the basic test for hydrocarbon emissions and carbon
24 monoxide emissions and other mobile source testing for nitrous
25 oxides or other pollutants, and no later than January 1, 1999,
26 to report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of
27 the House of Representatives setting forth the relevant facts
28 and the department's recommendations. Notwithstanding the
29 provisions of chapter 325, Florida Statutes, the department
30 and the Governor and Cabinet, acting as head of that agency,
31 are prohibited from entering into any contract or extension of
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1 a contract for any form of motor-vehicles-emissions testing
2 without legislative approval through the enactment of specific
3 legislation directing the department to implement an
4 inspection program and establishing a fee for the program.
5 (2) If no specific legislation is passed during the 1999
6 legislative session to direct the department to implement a
7 motor vehicle inspection program, the department may issue a
8 Request for Proposal and enter one or more contracts for a
9 biennial inspection program for vehicles five model years and
10 older using the basic test for hydrocarbon emissions and
11 carbon monoxide emissions. The requirements for the program
12 included in the proposals must be based on the requirements
13 under chapter 325, Florida Statutes, unless those requirements
14 conflict with this section. No contract entered into under
15 this subsection may be for longer than 2 years.
16 Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 325.214, if the fee for
17 motor vehicle inspection proposed by the Department of Highway
18 Safety and Motor Vehicles will exceed $10 per inspection, the
19 department may impose the higher fee if such fee is approved
20 through the budget amendment process set forth in chapter 216
21 and notice is provided to the Chairmen of the Senate and House
22 Transportation and Natural Resources Committees at the time it
23 is provided to the Senate Ways and Means and House
24 Appropriations Committees.
25 Section 2. Subsection (2) of section 325.214, Florida
26 Statutes, is amended to read:
27 325.214 Motor vehicle inspection; fees; disposition of
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29 (2) The department shall set an inspection fee shall
30 be not to exceed $10. By rule, the department shall set a
31 regulatory amount to be included in the fee which is
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1 commensurate with the cost of administering and enforcing the
2 inspection program. It is the intent of the Legislature that
3 the program be self-supporting. Notwithstanding any other
4 provision of law to the contrary, an additional fee of $1
5 shall be assessed upon the issuance of each dealer
6 certificate, which fee shall be forwarded to the department
7 for deposit into the Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund.
8 Section 3. There is appropriated from the Department
9 of Highway Safety Operating Trust Fund of the Department of
10 Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles for fiscal year 1998-1999,
11 the sum of $125,000 to fund the study established in this act.
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15 And the title is amended as follows:
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19 An act relating to motor vehicle emissions
20 inspections; directing the Department of
21 Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles to hire an
22 independent expert consultant to do a study;
23 prohibiting the department from entering into a
24 contract for a motor vehicle inspection
25 program; providing circumstances for issuance
26 of request for proposals and one or more
27 contracts; amending s. 325.214, F.S.; setting
28 the fee for inspections; establishing funds for
29 the study; providing an effective date.
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