Amendment
Bill No. 1869
Amendment No. 936839
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1The 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,
6Florida Statutes, to read:
7     120.65  Administrative law judges.--
8     (11)  The division shall be reimbursed for administrative
9law judge services and travel expenses by the following
10entities: water management districts, regional planning
11councils, school districts, community colleges, the Division of
12Community Colleges, state universities, the State Board of
13Education, the Florida School for the Deaf and the Blind, and
14the Commission for Independent Education. These entities shall
15contract with the division to establish a contract rate for
16services and provisions for reimbursement of administrative law
17judge travel expenses and video teleconferencing expenses
18attributable to hearings conducted on behalf of these entities.
19The contract rate must be based on a total-cost-recovery
20methodology.
21     Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.
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23================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T =================
24     Remove the entire title and insert:
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A bill to be entitled
26An act relating to services provided by the Division of
27Administrative Hearings; amending s. 120.65, F.S.;
28providing that certain entities must reimburse the
29division for services provided and travel expenses
30incurred by administrative law judges; providing an
31effective date.


CODING: Words stricken are deletions; words underlined are additions.