HOUSE AMENDMENT

    589-130AXB-00                                 Bill No. HB 1009

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Wiles offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14  Remove from the bill:  Everything after the enacting clause

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16  and insert in lieu thereof:

17         Section 1.  Section 215.245, Florida Statutes, is

18  created to read:

19         215.245  Contracts with Federal Government;

20  indemnification authorized in certain circumstances.--The

21  state and its political subdivisions, which are authorized to

22  enter into cooperative agreements or otherwise contract or

23  participate with the Federal Government in constructing water

24  resources development projects under the jurisdiction of the

25  Secretary of the Army, are authorized to agree in such

26  contracts or participation agreements to indemnify and hold

27  harmless the United States from damages due to the

28  construction, operation, maintenance, repair, replacement, and

29  rehabilitation of the projects and any state or local sponsor

30  project-related betterments, except for damages due to the

31  fault or negligence of the United States or its contractors;

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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

    589-130AXB-00                                 Bill No. HB 1009

    Amendment No.     (for drafter's use only)





 1  however, this section does not obligate the Legislature to

 2  provide future appropriations and does not abrogate the

 3  provisions of s. 45.062.

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

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 9  And the title is amended as follows:

10  remove from the title of the bill:  the entire title

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12  and insert in lieu thereof:

13                      A bill to be entitled

14         An act relating to financial matters; creating

15         s. 215.245, F.S.; authorizing the state and its

16         political subdivisions to enter into

17         indemnification agreements with the Federal

18         Government with respect to water resources

19         development projects; providing an effective

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