SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. HB 591, 2nd Eng.

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11  Senator Jones moved the following amendment to amendment

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 91, line 5, through page 92, line 3, delete

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19         Section 55.  Paragraph (f) of subsection (2) of section

20  348.0004, Florida Statutes, is amended, and paragraph (m) is

21  added to that subsection, to read:

22         348.0004  Purposes and powers.--

23         (2)  Each authority may exercise all powers necessary,

24  appurtenant, convenient, or incidental to the carrying out of

25  its purposes, including, but not limited to, the following

26  rights and powers:

27         (f)  To fix, alter, charge, establish, and collect

28  tolls, rates, fees, rentals, and other charges for the

29  services and facilities system, which tolls, rates, fees,

30  rentals, and other charges must always be sufficient to comply

31  with any covenants made with the holders of any bonds issued

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

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 1  pursuant to the Florida Expressway Authority Act. However,

 2  such right and power may be assigned or delegated by the

 3  authority to the department. Notwithstanding s. 338.165 or any

 4  other provision of law to the contrary, in any county as

 5  defined in s. 125.011(1), to the extent surplus revenues

 6  exist, they may be used for purposes enumerated in subsection

 7  (7), provided the expenditures are consistent with the

 8  metropolitan planning organization's adopted long-range plan.

 9  Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,

10  but subject to any contractual requirements contained in

11  documents securing any outstanding indebtedness payable from

12  tolls, in any county as defined in s. 125.011(1), the board of

13  county commissioners may, by ordinance adopted on or before

14  September 30, 1999, alter or abolish existing tolls and

15  currently approved increases thereto if the board provides a

16  local source of funding to the county expressway system for

17  transportation in an amount sufficient to replace revenues

18  necessary to meet bond obligations secured by such tolls and

19  increases.

20         (m)  To receive and consider unsolicited proposals from

21  private entities and enter into agreements with such proposer

22  for the planning, design, engineering, construction,

23  operation, ownership, or financing of additional expressways.

24  An expressway authority may consider any and all factors it

25  deems important in evaluating such proposals. An expressway

26  authority may adopt rules or policies for the receipt,

27  evaluation, and consideration of such proposals, however, such

28  rules must require substantially similar technical information

29  as is required by s. 14-107.0011(3)(a)-(e), F.A.C. In

30  accepting a proposal and entering into such an agreement, the

31  expressway authority and the private entity shall for all

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 1  purposes be deemed to have complied with chapters 255 and 287.

 2  Similar proposals shall be reviewed and acted on by the

 3  authority in the order in which they were received. An

 4  additional expressway may not be constructed under this

 5  section without the prior express written consent of the board

 6  of county commissioners of each county located within the

 7  geographical boundaries of the authority. The powers granted

 8  by this section are in addition to all other powers of the

 9  authority granted by this chapter.

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13  And the title is amended as follows:

14         On page 161, line 7, after the semicolon,

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17         authorizing an expressway authority to consider

18         proposals for the construction, operation,

19         ownership, or financing of additional

20         expressways; requiring prior consent of the

21         board of county commissioners of each county

22         within the boundaries of the authority;

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