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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

    198-326AXA-02         Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1270, 2nd Eng.

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11  Representative(s) Fuller offered the following:

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13         Substitute Amendment for Amendment (094741) 

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15  remove from the bill:  all of said lines

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18         Section 48.  Section 325.2135, Florida Statutes, 1998

19  Supplement, is amended to read:

20         325.2135  Motor vehicle emissions inspection program;

21  development of specifications; fees; reporting.--

22         (1)  The Department of Highway Safety and Motor

23  Vehicles shall hire an independent expert consultant to

24  develop appropriate request-for-proposal specifications and a

25  range of inspection fees for the motor vehicle emissions

26  inspection program based on an annual and a biennial

27  inspection program for vehicles 4 model years old and older,

28  using the basic test for hydrocarbon emissions and carbon

29  monoxide emissions and other mobile source testing for nitrous

30  oxides or other pollutants, and no later than January 1, 1999,

31  to report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of

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 1  the House of Representatives setting forth the relevant facts

 2  and the department's recommendations. Notwithstanding the

 3  provisions of chapter 325, the department and the Governor and

 4  Cabinet, acting as head of that agency, are prohibited from

 5  entering into any contract or extension of a contract for any

 6  form of motor vehicles emissions testing without legislative

 7  approval through the enactment of specific legislation

 8  directing the department to implement an inspection program

 9  and establishing a fee for the program.

10         (2)  If no specific legislation is passed during the

11  1999 legislative session to direct the department to implement

12  a motor vehicle inspection program, the department may issue a

13  request for proposal and The department may extend the current

14  emissions inspection program contracts for a period of time

15  sufficient to implement new contracts resulting from

16  competitive proposals, and shall enter into and implement one

17  or more contracts by June 30, 2000, for a biennial inspection

18  program for vehicles 5 model years and older using the basic

19  test for hydrocarbon emissions and carbon monoxide emissions.

20  The requirements for the program included in the proposals

21  must be based on the requirements under chapter 325 unless

22  those requirements conflict with this section. No contract

23  entered into under this subsection may be for longer than 7 2

24  years. Any contract authorized under this section must contain

25  a provision that, after 4 years, the department reserves the

26  right to cancel the contract upon 6 months' notice to the

27  contractor. Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 325.214, if

28  the fee for motor vehicle inspection proposed by the

29  Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles may not will

30  exceed $19 $10 per inspection., the department may impose the

31  higher fee if such fee is approved through the budget

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 1  amendment process set forth in chapter 216 and notice is

 2  provided to the chairmen of the Senate and House

 3  Transportation and Natural Resources Committees at the time it

 4  is provided to the Senate Ways and Means and House

 5  Appropriations Committees.

 6         Section 49.  Subsection (2) of section 325.214, Florida

 7  Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

 8         325.214  Motor vehicle inspection; fees; disposition of

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10         (2)  The inspection fee may not exceed $19 shall be

11  $10.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the

12  contrary, an additional fee of $1 shall be assessed upon the

13  issuance of each dealer certificate, which fee shall be

14  forwarded to the department for deposit into the Highway

15  Safety Operating Trust Fund.

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