SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. HB 2403, 2nd Eng.

    Amendment No. ___

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11  Senator Latvala moved the following amendment to amendment

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 56, before line 1,

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18         Section 23.  Section 259.037, Florida Statutes, is

19  created to read:

20         259.037  Land Management Uniform Accounting Council.--

21         (1)  The Land Management Uniform Accounting Council is

22  created within the Department of Environmental Protection and

23  shall consist of the director of the Division of State Lands,

24  the director of the Division of Recreation and Parks, the

25  director of the Office of Coastal and Aquatic Managed Areas,

26  and the director of the Office of Greenways and Trails of the

27  Department of Environmental Protection; the director of the

28  Division of Forestry of the Department of Agriculture and

29  Consumer Services; the executive director of the Fish and

30  Wildlife Conservation Commission; and the director of the

31  Division of Historial Resources of the Department of State, or

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  1  their respective designees.  Each state agency represented on

  2  the council shall have one vote.  The chair of the council

  3  shall rotate annually in the foregoing order of state

  4  agencies.  The agency of the representative serving as chair

  5  of the council shall provide staff support for the council.

  6  The Division of State Lands shall serve as the recipient of

  7  and repository for the council's documents.  The council shall

  8  meet initially by May 20, 2000, and thereafter at the request

  9  of the chair.

10         (2)  The Auditor General and the director of the Office

11  of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, or

12  their designees, shall advise the council to ensure that

13  appropriate accounting procedures are utilized and that a

14  uniform method of collecting and reporting accurate costs of

15  land management activities are created and can be used by all

16  agencies.

17         (3)  The council shall, by June 20, 2000, review

18  current land management practices and group closely related

19  land management activities and needs into categories.  All

20  land management activities and costs must be assigned to a

21  specific category, and any single activity or cost may not be

22  assigned to more than one category.  Administrative costs,

23  such as planning or training, shall be segregated from other

24  management activities.  Specific management activities and

25  costs must initially be grouped, at a minimum, within the

26  following categories:

27         (a)  Resource management.

28         (b)  Administration.

29         (c)  New facility construction.

30         (d)  Facility maintenance.

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  1  Upon adoption of the initial list of land management

  2  categories by the council, agencies assigned to manage

  3  conservation or recreation lands shall, on July 1, 2000, begin

  4  to account for land management costs in accordance with the

  5  category to which an expenditure is assigned.

  6         (4)  The council shall provide its adopted complete

  7  list of land management categories, including subcategories,

  8  to the Governor, the Board of Trustees of the Internal

  9  Improvement Trust Fund, the President of the Senate, the

10  Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Acquisition

11  and Restoration Council by January 1, 2001.

12         (5)  The council shall report agencies' expenditures

13  pursuant to the adopted categories to the President of the

14  Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives

15  annually, beginning July 1, 2001.  The council shall also

16  provide this report to the Acquisition and Restoration Council

17  for inclusion in its annual report required pursuant to s.

18  259.105.

19         (6)  Should the council determine that the list of land

20  management categories needs to be revised, it shall meet upon

21  the call of the chair.

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23  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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27  And the title is amended as follows:

28         On page 58, line 18, after the semicolon

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31         creating the Land Management Uniform Accounting

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