| 1 | The Conference Committee on HB 1869 offered the following: |
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| 3 | Conference Committee Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Remove everything after the enacting clause and insert: |
| 5 | Section 1. Subsection (11) is added to section 120.65, |
| 6 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 7 | 120.65 Administrative law judges.-- |
| 8 | (11) The division shall be reimbursed for administrative |
| 9 | law judge services and travel expenses by the following |
| 10 | entities: water management districts, regional planning |
| 11 | councils, school districts, community colleges, the Division of |
| 12 | Community Colleges, state universities, the State Board of |
| 13 | Education, the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, and |
| 14 | the Commission for Independent Education. These entities shall |
| 15 | contract with the division to establish a contract rate for |
| 16 | services and provisions for reimbursement of administrative law |
| 17 | judge travel expenses and video teleconferencing expenses |
| 18 | attributable to hearings conducted on behalf of these entities. |
| 19 | The contract rate must be based on a total-cost-recovery |
| 20 | methodology. |
| 21 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2004. |
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| 24 | Remove the entire title and insert: |
| 25 | A bill to be entitled |
| 26 | An act relating to services provided by the Division of |
| 27 | Administrative Hearings; amending s. 120.65, F.S.; |
| 28 | providing that certain entities must reimburse the |
| 29 | division for services provided and travel expenses |
| 30 | incurred by administrative law judges; providing an |
| 31 | effective date. |