Senate Bill sb1390

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1390

    By Senator Peaden





    2-913-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the Department of

  3         Corrections; amending s. 944.10, F.S.;

  4         providing for the department to preselect

  5         certain construction managers based on

  6         continuing contracts; applying specific

  7         advertising requirements; providing an

  8         effective date.

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

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (1) of section 944.10, Florida

13  Statutes, is amended to read:

14         944.10  Department of Corrections to provide buildings;

15  sale and purchase of land; contracts to provide services and

16  inmate labor.--

17         (1)(a)  It is the intent of the Legislature to expedite

18  the siting of, acquisition of land for, and construction by

19  the Department of Corrections of state correctional facilities

20  operated by the department or a private vendor under contract

21  with the department. Other agencies shall cooperate with the

22  department and expeditiously fulfill their responsibilities to

23  avoid unnecessary delay in the siting of, acquisition of land

24  for, and construction of state correctional facilities. This

25  section and all other laws of the state shall be construed to

26  accomplish this intent. This section shall take precedence

27  over any other law to the contrary

28         (b)  Notwithstanding s. 255.29, the process for

29  selecting construction managers for the construction of state

30  correctional facilities may not be project specific, in order

31  to allow the preselection of construction managers for future

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1390
    2-913-04




 1  projects based upon a continuing contract similar to the

 2  selection process used for architects and engineers under s.

 3  287.055. The advertising requirements for s. 255.0525 apply to

 4  the process for selecting construction managers for state

 5  correctional facilities.

 6         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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      construction managers on a continuing contract basis.
11    Applies specific advertising requirements to such
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