Senate Bill sb2392

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 2392

    By Senator Atwater





    25-1924-07

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to state universities;

  3         directing the State Board of Education to

  4         approve an agreement under which Florida

  5         Atlantic University will sublease land for the

  6         construction of a community-university

  7         affiliated teaching hospital; providing a

  8         finding of public purpose; providing for the

  9         President or Chief Executive Officer of the

10         university to serve on the hospital's board of

11         directors; authorizing the university to grant

12         the hospital an option to purchase the land

13         subject to the sublease; providing a contingent

14         effective date.

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

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18         Section 1.  (1)  The State Board of Education shall

19  approve an agreement between Florida Atlantic University and

20  Boca Raton Community Hospital, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit

21  corporation, for the sublease of land on the Boca Raton campus

22  of Florida Atlantic University, including the construction by

23  the lessee, at the lessee's cost and expense, of a

24  community-university affiliated teaching hospital and

25  ancillary facilities, together with all furnishings,

26  equipment, and other chattels used in the operation of a

27  hospital. The public-private partnership set forth in the

28  sublease between the university and the lessee for the

29  development and construction of a community-university

30  affiliated teaching hospital, which shall serve as the primary

31  teaching hospital for a major regional academic medical

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    Florida Senate - 2007                                  SB 2392
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 1  program located at the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic

 2  University, constitutes a public purpose and meets the medical

 3  needs as well as the academic medical education needs of the

 4  State of Florida. For purposes of this section, "lessee" means

 5  Boca Raton Community Hospital, Inc., a Florida not-for-profit

 6  corporation.

 7         (2)  For purposes of this section, all materials and

 8  meetings related to the undergraduate medical and graduate

 9  medical education programs of the university shall become

10  subject to Section 24, Article I of the State Constitution and

11  ss. 119.07(1) and 286.011, Florida Statutes.

12         (3)  Either the President of Florida Atlantic

13  University or the Chief Executive Officer of Florida Atlantic

14  University shall serve on the board of directors of the

15  lessee.

16         (4)  The Florida Atlantic University Board of Trustees

17  may, with the approval of the Board of Trustees of the

18  Internal Improvement Trust Fund, grant the lessee an option to

19  purchase the land subject to the sublease. The compensation

20  paid by the lessee for the fee simple interest in the land and

21  the leasehold interest shall be payable to the university.

22         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2007, if

23  Senate Bill _____ or similar legislation granting an exemption

24  from public-records requirements for records associated with

25  the lease described in this act and an exemption from

26  public-meetings requirements for meetings between the lessor

27  and lessee described in this act is adopted at the same

28  session of the Legislature, or an extension thereof, and

29  becomes law.

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 2                          SENATE SUMMARY

 3    Directs the State Board of Education to approve a
      sublease of land at the Boca Raton campus of Florida
 4    Atlantic University to Boca Raton Community Hospital for
      the sublessee to construct a community-university
 5    affiliated teaching hospital. The university president or
      chief executive officer will serve on the hospital board
 6    of directors. The university may, with the approval of
      the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust
 7    Fund, grant the hospital an option to buy the subleased
      land.
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