Senate Bill sb2228

    Florida Senate - 2004        (NP)                      SR 2228

    By Senator Bennett





    21-1946-04

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution honoring Mr. Carroll Webb for his

  3         28 years of service as Executive Director and

  4         General Counsel of the Joint Administrative

  5         Procedures Committee of the Florida

  6         Legislature.

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  8         WHEREAS, Mr. Carroll Webb served the State of Florida

  9  for more than 28 years as Executive Director and General

10  Counsel of the Joint Administrative Procedures Committee of

11  the Florida Legislature, from October 1974 through June 2003,

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13         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb served with unfailing dedication and

14  integrity while zealously reviewing rules of the executive

15  branch to ensure that they were clearly within the statutory

16  authority that they purported to implement, and

17         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb graduated from Lake Worth Junior and

18  Senior High School, where he was on the baseball, basketball,

19  and track teams and was elected President of the Senior Class,

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21         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb attended the University of Florida

22  and ran track during his Freshman Year, after which he served

23  in the United States Army for 2 years, and

24         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb earned a Bachelor's Degree in

25  Business Administration from the University of Florida in

26  Gainesville, where he was active in the Alpha Tau Omega Social

27  Fraternity, and

28         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb earned a law degree from Stetson

29  University College of Law in St. Petersburg, where he was a

30  member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity and President of

31  the Student Bar Association, and

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 1         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb served as Assistant General Counsel

 2  to the Florida Development Commission, advising on bond

 3  validation proceedings for road and bridge bonds, and then

 4  served as Assistant General Counsel to the State Road

 5  Department, litigating eminent domain cases for the

 6  acquisition of rights of way, and

 7         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb served as Special Counsel to a task

 8  force in the Office of the Comptroller, advising on new

 9  taxation procedures to ensure that ad valorem taxes were based

10  on the full value of property, and then served as General

11  Counsel to the Comptroller of Florida, advising on the payment

12  of all charges and warrants for the state, and

13         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb distinguished himself as a member of

14  the Florida House of Representatives from 1972 to 1974 and was

15  voted the Allen Morris Award as the Most Outstanding Freshman

16  by the membership of the House of Representatives, and

17         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb has been a devoted husband to Helen

18  Score Webb of Lake Worth for 45 years and has four grown

19  children and one granddaughter, and

20         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb's tireless efforts have ensured the

21  careful review of more than 130,000 administrative rules based

22  on Florida law, revealing that 25 percent of these rules

23  lacked adequate statutory authority and prompting amendment of

24  these rules by the agencies adopting them, so that, but for

25  his efforts, there would be nearly 32,000 illegal rules on the

26  books in Florida today, and

27         WHEREAS, Mr. Webb ended his tenure as Executive

28  Director and General Counsel of the Joint Administrative

29  Procedures Committee of the Florida Legislature upon his

30  retirement on June 30, 2003, NOW, THEREFORE,

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 1  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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 3         That Mr. Carroll Webb is commended for his many

 4  achievements and for his faithful commitment, dedication, and

 5  service to the Florida Legislature and to all of the people of

 6  the State of Florida.

 7         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

 8  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to Mr.

 9  Carroll Webb as a tangible token of the high esteem of the

10  Florida Senate.

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