House Bill 0191c1

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999              CS/HB 191

        By the Committee on Governmental Operations and
    Representative Lawson





  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the naming of state

  3         buildings and other facilities; amending s.

  4         267.062, F.S.; prohibiting the naming of any

  5         state building, road, bridge, park,

  6         recreational complex, or other similar facility

  7         for any elected public official in office or

  8         any other living person; requiring notice;

  9         providing an effective date.

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

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13         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 267.062, Florida

14  Statutes, is amended to read:

15         267.062  Naming of state buildings and other

16  facilities.--

17         (1)  Except as specifically provided by law, no state

18  building, road, bridge, park, recreational complex, or other

19  similar facility shall be named for any elected public

20  official who is in office or for any other living person.

21         (a)  Written notice shall be provided to the boards of

22  county commissioners in the affected counties not later than 3

23  weeks prior to obtaining legislation naming a state building,

24  road, bridge, park, recreational complex, or other similar

25  facility for any elected public official who is in office or

26  for any other living person.

27         (b)  A true copy of the notice delivered shall be

28  attached to the bill when introduced, but it shall not be

29  necessary to enter said notice, or proof thereof, in the

30  journals of the Senate and the House of Representatives. The

31  fact that such notice was established in the Legislature shall

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999              CS/HB 191

    688-102-99






  1  in every case be recited upon the journals, and the notice

  2  shall accompany the bill throughout the Legislature and be

  3  preserved as part thereof in the Department of State.

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

  5  law.

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