Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. HB 1681, 1st Eng.
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11  Senator Geller moved the following amendment to amendment
12  (221648):
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 55, between lines 28 and 29,
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18         Section 14.  Subsection (4) of section 343.52, Florida
19  Statutes, is amended to read:
20         343.52  Definitions.--As used in this part, the term:
21         (4)  "Transit system" means a system used for the
22  transportation of people and goods by means of, without
23  limitation, a street railway, an inland waterway, an elevated
24  railway having a fixed guideway, a commuter railroad, a
25  subway, motor vehicles, or motor buses, and includes a
26  complete system of tracks, stations, and rolling stock
27  necessary to effectuate passenger service to or from the
28  surrounding regional municipalities.
29         Section 15.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section
30  343.54, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
31         343.54  Powers and duties.--
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Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 1681, 1st Eng. Barcode 840708 1 (1) 2 (b) It is the express intention of this part that the 3 authority be authorized to plan, develop, own, purchase, 4 lease, or otherwise acquire, demolish, construct, improve, 5 relocate, equip, repair, maintain, operate, and manage a 6 transit system and transit facilities; to establish and 7 determine the policies necessary for the best interest of the 8 operation and promotion of a transit system; and to adopt 9 rules necessary to govern the operation of a transit commuter 10 rail system and transit commuter rail facilities. It is the 11 intent of the Legislature that the South Florida Regional 12 Transportation Authority shall have overall authority to 13 coordinate, develop, and operate a regional transportation 14 system within the area served. 15 Section 16. Subsection (1) of section 120.52, Florida 16 Statutes, is amended to read: 17 120.52 Definitions.--As used in this act: 18 (1) "Agency" means: 19 (a) The Governor in the exercise of all executive 20 powers other than those derived from the constitution. 21 (b) Each: 22 1. State officer and state department, and each 23 departmental unit described in s. 20.04. 24 2. Authority, including a regional water supply 25 authority. 26 3. Board. 27 4. Commission, including the Commission on Ethics and 28 the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission when acting 29 pursuant to statutory authority derived from the Legislature. 30 5. Regional planning agency. 31 6. Multicounty special district with a majority of its 2 5:14 PM 05/04/05 h168102e1c-31-s02
Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 1681, 1st Eng. Barcode 840708 1 governing board comprised of nonelected persons. 2 7. Educational units. 3 8. Entity described in chapters 163, 373, 380, and 582 4 and s. 186.504. 5 (c) Each other unit of government in the state, 6 including counties and municipalities, to the extent they are 7 expressly made subject to this act by general or special law 8 or existing judicial decisions. 9 10 This definition does not include any legal entity or agency 11 created in whole or in part pursuant to chapter 361, part II, 12 any metropolitan planning organization created pursuant to s. 13 339.175, any separate legal or administrative entity created 14 pursuant to s. 339.175 of which a metropolitan planning 15 organization is a member, a regional transportation authority 16 created pursuant to chapter 343, an expressway authority 17 pursuant to chapter 348, any legal or administrative entity 18 created by an interlocal agreement pursuant to s. 163.01(7), 19 unless any party to such agreement is otherwise an agency as 20 defined in this subsection, or any multicounty special 21 district with a majority of its governing board comprised of 22 elected persons; however, this definition shall include a 23 regional water supply authority. 24 25 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 26 27 28 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 29 And the title is amended as follows: 30 On page 60, line 12, after the semicolon, 31 3 5:14 PM 05/04/05 h168102e1c-31-s02
Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 1681, 1st Eng. Barcode 840708 1 insert: 2 amending s. 343.52, F.S.; revising the 3 definition of "transit system" for purposes of 4 the South Florida Regional Transportation 5 Authority Act; amending s. 343.54, F.S.; 6 revising powers and duties of that authority; 7 removing reference to commuter rail systems; 8 amending s. 120.52, F.S.; providing that 9 specified regional transportation authorities 10 are not agencies under the Administrative 11 Procedure Act; 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 4 5:14 PM 05/04/05 h168102e1c-31-s02