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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

    540-193AX-27                                  Bill No. HB 2029

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11  The Committee on General Appropriations offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 2, line 25, through page 3, line 17,

15  remove from the bill:  all of said lines

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18         (4)  The Board of Regents shall, in consultation with

19  local and state emergency management agencies, assess existing

20  facilities to identify the extent to which each campus has

21  public hurricane evacuation shelter space. The board shall

22  submit to the Governor and the Legislature by September 30 of

23  each year a 5-year capital improvements program that

24  identifies new or retrofitted facilities that will incorporate

25  enhanced hurricane resistance standards and that can be used

26  as public hurricane evacuation shelters. adequate to house

27  those students, faculty, and employees expected to seek public

28  shelter prior to or during a disaster and those other persons

29  for which the campus has agreed with the local emergency

30  management agency or other voluntary organization to provide

31  shelter space.  The board shall submit a report describing the

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 1  results of its assessment to the Governor and the Legislature

 2  by February 1, 1994.  At the discretion of the board, this

 3  report may be accompanied by a list of proposed improvements

 4  to existing buildings to improve shelter capacity and an

 5  estimate of the costs associated with implementing these

 6  improvements.  Until a county in which a campus is located has

 7  sufficient public hurricane evacuation shelter space, any

 8  campus building for which a design contract is entered into

 9  subsequent to July 1, 2000 1994, and which has been identified

10  by the board, with the concurrence of the local emergency

11  management agency or the Department of Community Affairs, to

12  be appropriate for use as a public hurricane evacuation

13  shelter, must be constructed in accordance with public shelter

14  standards unless the board, with the concurrence of the local

15  emergency management agency or the Department of Community

16  Affairs, exempts the building or part thereof from shelter

17  standards because of its location, size, or other

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22  And the title is amended as follows:

23         On page 1, lines 6 through 9,

24  remove from the title of the bill:  all of said lines

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27         space on certain campuses; requiring the

28         submission of a capital improvements program;

29         deleting a requirement for the submission of a

30         report; revising a condition precedent to a

31         requirement for specified building construction

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