House Bill 0659

    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                 HB 659

        By Representative Merchant






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to local government

  3         comprehensive planning; amending s. 163.3187,

  4         F.S.; providing that the limitation on the

  5         frequency of amendments to a local government's

  6         comprehensive plan does not apply to amendments

  7         necessary to establish public school

  8         concurrency; providing that all local

  9         government public school facilities elements

10         within a county shall be prepared and adopted

11         on a similar time schedule; providing an

12         effective date.

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

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16         Section 1.  Paragraph (h) is added to subsection (1) of

17  section 163.3187, Florida Statutes, 1998 Supplement, to read:

18         163.3187  Amendment of adopted comprehensive plan.--

19         (1)  Amendments to comprehensive plans adopted pursuant

20  to this part may be made not more than two times during any

21  calendar year, except:

22         (h)  Any comprehensive plan amendment to establish

23  public school concurrency pursuant to s. 163.3180(12),

24  including, but not limited to, adoption of a public school

25  facilities element and adoption of amendments to the capital

26  improvements element. In order to ensure the consistency of

27  all local government public school facilities elements within

28  a county with each other, such elements shall be prepared and

29  adopted on a similar time schedule.

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

31  law.

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    Florida House of Representatives - 1999                 HB 659

    513-184-99






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      Provides that the limitation on the frequency of
  4    amendments to a local government's comprehensive plan
      does not apply to amendments necessary to establish
  5    public school concurrency. Specifies that all local
      government public school facilities elements within a
  6    county shall be prepared and adopted on a similar time
      schedule.
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