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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. HB 591, 2nd Eng.

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11  Senator Forman moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 166, between lines 17 and 18,

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17         Section 118.  Subsection (2) of section 339.175,

18  Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, is amended to read:

19         339.175  Metropolitan planning organization.--It is the

20  intent of the Legislature to encourage and promote the

21  development of transportation systems embracing various modes

22  of transportation in a manner that will maximize the mobility

23  of people and goods within and through urbanized areas of this

24  state and minimize, to the maximum extent feasible, and

25  together with applicable regulatory government agencies,

26  transportation-related fuel consumption and air pollution.  To

27  accomplish these objectives, metropolitan planning

28  organizations, referred to in this section as M.P.O.'s, shall

29  develop, in cooperation with the state, transportation plans

30  and programs for metropolitan areas. Such plans and programs

31  must provide for the development of transportation facilities

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 1  that will function as an intermodal transportation system for

 2  the metropolitan area.  The process for developing such plans

 3  and programs shall be continuing, cooperative, and

 4  comprehensive, to the degree appropriate, based on the

 5  complexity of the transportation problems.

 6         (2)  VOTING MEMBERSHIP.--

 7         (a)  The voting membership of an M.P.O. shall consist

 8  of not fewer than 5 or more than 19 apportioned members, the

 9  exact number to be determined on an equitable

10  geographic-population ratio basis by the Governor, based on an

11  agreement among the affected units of general-purpose local

12  government as required by federal rules and regulations. The

13  Governor, in accordance with 23 U.S.C. s. 134, as amended by

14  the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991,

15  may also provide for M.P.O. members who represent

16  municipalities to alternate with representatives from other

17  municipalities within the designated urban area that do not

18  have members on the M.P.O. County commission members shall

19  compose not less than one-third of the M.P.O. membership,

20  except for an M.P.O. with more than 15 members located in a

21  county with a five-member county commission or an M.P.O. with

22  19 members located in a county with no more than 6 county

23  commissioners, in which case county commission members may

24  compose less than one-third percent of the M.P.O. membership,

25  but all county commissioners must be members. All voting

26  members shall be elected officials of general-purpose

27  governments, except that an M.P.O. may include, as part of its

28  apportioned voting members, a member of a statutorily

29  authorized planning board or an official of an agency that

30  operates or administers a major mode of transportation.  In

31  metropolitan areas in which authorities or other agencies have

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 1  been, or may be, created by law to perform transportation

 2  functions that are not under the jurisdiction of a

 3  general-purpose local government represented on the M.P.O.,

 4  they shall be provided voting membership on the M.P.O.  The

 5  county commission shall compose not less than 20 percent of

 6  the M.P.O. membership if an official of an agency that

 7  operates or administers a major mode of transportation has

 8  been appointed to an M.P.O.

 9         (b)  Any other provision of this section to the

10  contrary notwithstanding, any county chartered under s. 6(e),

11  Art. VIII of the State Constitution may elect to have its

12  county commission serve as the M.P.O., if the M.P.O.

13  jurisdiction is wholly contained within the county.  Any

14  charter county that elects to exercise the provisions of this

15  paragraph shall so notify the Governor in writing.  Upon

16  receipt of such notification, the Governor must designate the

17  county commission as the M.P.O.  The Governor must appoint

18  four additional voting members to the M.P.O., one of whom must

19  be an elected official representing a municipality within the

20  county, one of whom must be an expressway authority member,

21  one of whom must be a person who does not hold elected public

22  office and who resides in the unincorporated portion of the

23  county, and one of whom must be a school board member.

24         (c)  Any other provision of this section to the

25  contrary notwithstanding, a chartered county with over 1

26  million population may elect to reapportion the membership of

27  an M.P.O. whose jurisdiction is wholly within the county. The

28  charter county may exercise the provisions of this paragraph

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30         1.  The M.P.O. approves the reapportionment plan by a

31  3/4 vote of its membership;

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 1         2.  The M.P.O. and the charter county determine that

 2  the reapportionment plan is needed to fulfill specific goals

 3  and policies applicable to that metropolitan planning area;

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 5         3.  The charter county determines the reapportionment

 6  plan otherwise complies with all federal requirements

 7  pertaining to M.P.O. membership.

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 9  Any charter county that elects to exercise the provisions of

10  this paragraph shall notify the Governor in writing.

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16  And the title is amended as follows:

17         On page 8, line 25, after the semicolon,

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20         amending s. 339.175, F.S.; providing an

21         additional method of selecting voting

22         membership in an M.P.O. under certain

23         circumstances; requiring a three-fourths vote

24         of the MPO;

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