SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for CS for SB's 310 & 380
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CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Senator Pruitt moved the following amendment to amendment
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 37. Subsection (6) is added to section
19 163.3202, Florida Statutes, to read:
20 163.3202 Land development regulations.--
21 (6)(a) The Legislature finds that electric utilities
22 have a statutory duty pursuant to this chapter to provide
23 reasonably sufficient, adequate, and efficient service. The
24 Legislature further finds that electric substations are an
25 indispensable component of the grid system by which electric
26 utilities deliver reliable electric service to all public and
27 private persons as required by law. The Legislature further
28 finds that electric utility substations are essential services
29 for the public health, safety, and welfare and therefore are
30 in the public interest.
31 (b) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a local
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1 government from adopting land development regulations which
2 establish reasonable standards for setbacks, buffering, and
3 landscaping and other such site conditions which ensure
4 consistency with the local comprehensive plan for a substation
5 that will be constructed or operated by an electric utility.
6 Compliance with any such adopted standards shall render a
7 substation compatible with adjacent land uses and consistent
8 with the local comprehensive plan.
9 (c) Notwithstanding any other law, after an electric
10 utility demonstrates by competent substantial evidence that it
11 meets all criteria for approval of an application for a
12 development permit for the location, construction, and
13 operation of a substation, the local government may not deny
14 the application unless the preponderance of the evidence
15 applying a strict scrutiny standard of review demonstrates the
16 application does not meet the requirements of the
17 comprehensive plan or applicable land development regulations.
18 Section 38. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section
19 380.04, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20 380.04 Definition of development.--
21 (3) The following operations or uses shall not be
22 taken for the purpose of this chapter to involve "development"
23 as defined in this section:
24 (b) Work by any utility and other persons engaged in
25 the distribution or transmission of gas, electricity, or
26 water, for the purpose of inspecting, repairing, renewing, or
27 constructing on established rights-of-way any sewers, mains,
28 pipes, cables, utility tunnels, power lines, towers, poles,
29 tracks, or the like.
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2 And the title is amended as follows:
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6 amending s. 163.3202, F.S.; providing for the
7 siting of substations; amending s. 380.04,
8 F.S.; revising the definition of development;
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