HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 1473 CS
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12	Representative Benson offered the following:
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14	Amendment (with title amendment)
15	Between line(s) 328 and 329, insert:
16	Section 5. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
17	339.135, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
18	339.135 Work program; legislative budget request;
19	definitions; preparation, adoption, execution, and amendment.--
20	(4) FUNDING AND DEVELOPING A TENTATIVE WORK PROGRAM.--
21	(a)1. To assure that no district or county is penalized
22	for local efforts to improve the State Highway System, the
23	department shall, for the purpose of developing a tentative work
24	program, allocate funds for new construction to the districts,
25	except for the turnpike enterprise, based on equal parts of
26	population and motor fuel tax collections. Funds for
27	resurfacing, bridge repair and rehabilitation, bridge fender
28	system construction or repair, public transit projects except
29	public transit block grants as provided in s. 341.052, and other
30	programs with quantitative needs assessments shall be allocated
31	based on the results of these assessments. The department may
32	not transfer any funds allocated to a district under this
33	paragraph to any other district except as provided in subsection
34	(7). Funds for public transit block grants shall be allocated to
35	the districts pursuant to s. 341.052. Funds for the intercity
36	bus program provided for under s. 5311(f) of the federal
37	nonurbanized area formula program shall be administered and
38	allocated directly to eligible bus carriers as defined in s.
39	341.031(12) at the state level rather than the district. In
40	order to provide state funding to support the intercity bus
41	program provided for under provisions of the federal 5311(f)
42	program, the department shall allocate an amount equal to the
43	federal share of the 5311(f) program from amounts calculated
44	pursuant to s. 206.46(3).
45	2. Notwithstanding the provisions of subparagraph 1., the
46	department shall allocate at least 50 percent of any new
47	discretionary highway capacity funds to the Florida Intrastate
48	Highway System established pursuant to s. 338.001. Any remaining
49	new discretionary highway capacity funds shall be allocated to
50	the districts for new construction as provided in subparagraph
51	1. For the purposes of this subparagraph, the term "new
52	discretionary highway capacity funds" means any funds available
53	to the department above the prior year funding level for
54	capacity improvements, which the department has the discretion
55	to allocate to highway projects.
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59	Remove line(s) 38, and insert:
60	intercity bus service; amending s. 339.135, F.S.;
61	providing for distribution of funds for the intercity bus
62	program; providing for state matching funds; providing an
63	effective date.