Senate Bill sb1560
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    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1560
    By Senators Peaden, Bronson, Clary, Mitchell, Latvala, Pruitt
    and Smith
    1-677-01                                                See HB
  1                      A bill to be entitled
  2         An act relating to the Department of
  3         Environmental Protection; directing the
  4         Department of Environmental Protection to
  5         establish a pilot project to test the
  6         cost-effectiveness of publication of notices on
  7         the Internet in lieu of publication in the
  8         Florida Administrative Weekly; providing that
  9         the Department of Environmental Protection
10         shall submit a report on the cost-effectiveness
11         of publication of such notices on the Internet;
12         providing an 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.  (1)  On or before December 31, 2001, the
17  Department of Environmental Protection shall establish and
18  commence a pilot project to determine the cost-effectiveness
19  of publication of notices on the Internet in lieu of
20  publication in the Florida Administrative Weekly. The pilot
21  project shall end on July 1, 2003. Under this pilot project,
22  notwithstanding any other provision of the Florida Statutes,
23  whenever the Department of Environmental Protection is
24  required to publish notices in the Florida Administrative
25  Weekly, in lieu of publication in the Florida Administrative
26  Weekly, the Department of Environmental Protection shall
27  publish such notices on the Internet. Notices published on the
28  Internet under this provision shall clearly state the date the
29  notice was first posted on the Internet, shall be posted only
30  on the same days the Florida Administrative Weekly is
31  published, and shall comply with the form and content
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    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1560
    1-677-01                                                See HB
  1  provision of rules 1S-1.002-1S-1.004, Florida Administrative
  2  Code. Notices related to proposed rule development and
  3  proposed rulemaking published on the Internet under this
  4  provision shall be maintained on the Internet for a period of
  5  12 months after the effective date of the rule or 3 months
  6  after the publication of a notice of withdrawal of the
  7  proposed rule. All other notices published on the Internet
  8  under this provision shall be maintained on the Internet for a
  9  period of 3 months after the date first posted.
10         (2)  The Department of Environmental Protection shall
11  publish notice of this pilot project in each weekly
12  publication of the Florida Administrative Weekly. The notice
13  shall state:  "Under a temporary pilot project to determine
14  the cost-effectiveness of Internet publication of notices in
15  lieu of publication in the Florida Administrative Weekly,
16  notices of the Department of Environmental Protection are
17  being published on the Internet at the following Internet URL
18  or address:  http://www.dep.state.fl.us."
19         (3)  Based on information obtained from the date of
20  commencement of the pilot project through December 31, 2002,
21  the Department of Environmental Protection, on January 31,
22  2003, shall report to the Governor, the President of the
23  Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives its
24  findings on the cost-effectiveness of publication of notices
25  on the Internet in lieu of publication in the Florida
26  Administrative Weekly.
27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2001.
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    Florida Senate - 2001                                  SB 1560
    1-677-01                                                See HB
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  2                          HOUSE SUMMARY
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      Directs the Department of Environmental Protection to
  4    establish a pilot project to test the cost-effectiveness
      of publication of notices on the Internet in lieu of
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      Requires a report. See bill for details.
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