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By the Committees on Governmental Operations; Community
Affairs; and Senator Bennett
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1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to the Joint Legislative
3 Committee for a Sustainable Florida; creating
4 s. 11.74, F.S.; creating the Joint Legislative
5 Committee for a Sustainable Florida; requiring
6 the Governor, the President of the Senate, and
7 the Speaker of the House of Representatives to
8 appoint the members of the committee; providing
9 for a chairperson of the committee and terms of
10 office; providing for meetings and a quorum;
11 authorizing reimbursement of members for per
12 diem and travel expenses; prohibiting a member
13 of the committee from having certain interests
14 in contracts or benefits awarded by the
15 committee; providing for additional powers and
16 duties of the committee; providing for the
17 appointment and oversight of the executive
18 director of the committee; providing for the
19 committee to be located within the Office of
20 Legislative Services for administrative
21 purposes; amending s. 201.15, F.S.; revising
22 the amount of an appropriation to local
23 governments and school districts of proceeds
24 from the excise tax on documents; deleting an
25 appropriation of such funds to the Century
26 Commission; repealing s. 163.3247, F.S.,
27 relating to the Century Commission for a
28 Sustainable Florida; providing an appropriation
29 to the committee; providing an effective date.
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31 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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1 Section 1. Section 11.74, Florida Statutes, is created
2 to read:
3 11.74 Joint Legislative Committee for a Sustainable
4 Florida.--
5 (1) The Joint Legislative Committee for a Sustainable
6 Florida is created for the purpose of helping the residents of
7 this state envision and plan their collective future with an
8 eye towards both 25-year and 50-year horizons.
9 (a) The committee shall consist of 18 members, 6
10 members appointed by the Governor, 6 members appointed by the
11 President of the Senate, one of whom may be a Senator, and 6
12 members appointed by the Speaker of the House of
13 Representatives, one of whom may be a member of the House of
14 Representatives. The membership must represent local
15 governments, school boards, developers and home builders, the
16 business community, the agriculture community, the
17 environmental community, and other appropriate stakeholders.
18 In making the appointments, the President of the Senate and
19 the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall ensure that
20 the membership of the committee reflects the racial, ethnic,
21 and gender diversity, as well as the geographic distribution,
22 of the state's population. The President of the Senate and the
23 Speaker of the House of Representatives shall give the
24 greatest consideration possible to the appointment of members
25 of the Century Commission to the committee. One member shall
26 be elected as the chairperson of the committee. Any vacancy
27 that occurs on the committee shall be filled in the same
28 manner as the original appointment and shall be for the
29 unexpired term of that committee seat. Members shall be
30 appointed to 4-year terms. An appointee may not serve more
31 than 8 years.
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1 (b) The committee shall meet at the call of the
2 chairperson but not less frequently than three times per year
3 in order to solicit input from the public or any other
4 individuals offering testimony relevant to the issues to be
5 considered.
6 (c) Each member of the committee is entitled to one
7 vote, and actions of the committee are not binding unless
8 taken by a three-fifths vote of the members present. A
9 majority of the members is required to constitute a quorum,
10 and the affirmative vote of a quorum is required for a binding
11 vote.
12 (d) Members of the committee shall serve without
13 compensation, but are entitled to receive reimbursement for
14 per diem and travel expenses in accordance with s. 112.061
15 while performing their duties.
16 (e) A member of the committee may not, in the period
17 commencing with his or her appointment to the committee and
18 continuing for 2 years after termination of such appointment,
19 have an interest, direct or indirect, in any contract or other
20 benefit granted or awarded by the committee.
21 (2) The committee shall:
22 (a) Conduct a process through which the committee
23 envisions the future for the state and then develops and
24 recommends policies, plans, action steps, or strategies to
25 assist in achieving the vision.
26 (b) Continuously review and consider statutory and
27 regulatory provisions, governmental processes, and societal
28 and economic trends in its inquiry of how state, regional, and
29 local governments and entities and residents of this state can
30 best accommodate projected increases in the population while
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1 maintaining the natural, historical, cultural, and manmade
2 life qualities that best represent the state.
3 (c) Bring together people representing varied
4 interests in order to develop a shared image of the state and
5 its developed and natural areas. The process should involve
6 exploring the effects of increases in the estimated population
7 and other emerging trends and issues, creating a vision for
8 the future, and developing a strategic action plan to achieve
9 that vision using 25-year and 50-year intermediate planning
10 timeframes.
11 (d) Focus on essential state interests, which are
12 those interests that transcend local or regional boundaries
13 and that are most appropriately conserved, protected, and
14 promoted at the state level.
15 (e) Serve as an objective, nonpartisan repository of
16 exemplary community-building ideas and as a source to
17 recommend strategies and practices to assist others in working
18 collaboratively to solve problems concerning issues relating
19 to growth management.
20 (f) Annually, on January 16, provide to the Governor,
21 the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of
22 Representatives a written report containing specific
23 recommendations for addressing growth management in the state,
24 including executive and legislative recommendations. In
25 addition, the report must contain discussion and
26 recommendations regarding the need for intergovernmental
27 cooperation and the balancing of environmental protection and
28 future development, including, but not limited to,
29 recommendations regarding dedicated sources of funding for
30 sewer facilities, water supply and quality, transportation
31 facilities that are not adequately addressed by the Strategic
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1 Intermodal System, and educational infrastructure to support
2 existing development and projected population growth.
3 (g) Enter into contracts to receive and accept grants
4 and contributions from any source, which shall be used to
5 further the mission of the committee.
6 (h) Adopt rules necessary for its own organization and
7 operation and for that of its staff, consistent with general
8 law and with the rules of each house.
9 (3)(a) The committee shall appoint an executive
10 director who shall serve under the direction, supervision, and
11 control of the committee. The committee shall have complete
12 authority for fixing the salary of the executive director. The
13 committee is assigned to the Office of Legislative Services
14 for purposes of administration and fiscal accountability. The
15 executive director, with the consent of the committee and
16 within budgetary limitations, shall employ staff as necessary
17 to adequately perform its functions.
18 (b) The Office of Legislative Services shall provide
19 staff and other resources necessary to accomplish the goals of
20 the committee based upon recommendations of the Legislature.
21 (c) All agencies are requested, to render assistance
22 to, and cooperate with, the committee.
23 Section 2. Paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of section
24 201.15, Florida Statutes, as amended by section 22 of chapter
25 2006-1, section 2 of chapter 2006-185, and section 2 of
26 chapter 2006-231, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:
27 201.15 Distribution of taxes collected.--All taxes
28 collected under this chapter shall be distributed as follows
29 and shall be subject to the service charge imposed in s.
30 215.20(1), except that such service charge shall not be levied
31 against any portion of taxes pledged to debt service on bonds
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1 to the extent that the amount of the service charge is
2 required to pay any amounts relating to the bonds:
3 (1) Sixty-two and sixty-three hundredths percent of
4 the remaining taxes collected under this chapter shall be used
5 for the following purposes:
6 (d) The remainder of the moneys distributed under this
7 subsection, after the required payments under paragraphs (a),
8 (b), and (c), shall be paid into the State Treasury to the
9 credit of:
10 1. The State Transportation Trust Fund in the
11 Department of Transportation in the amount of $541.75 million
12 in each fiscal year, to be paid in quarterly installments and
13 used for the following specified purposes, notwithstanding any
14 other law to the contrary:
15 a. For the purposes of capital funding for the New
16 Starts Transit Program, authorized by Title 49, U.S.C. s. 5309
17 and specified in s. 341.051, 10 percent of these funds;
18 b. For the purposes of the Small County Outreach
19 Program specified in s. 339.2818, 5 percent of these funds;
20 c. For the purposes of the Strategic Intermodal System
21 specified in ss. 339.61, 339.62, 339.63, and 339.64, 75
22 percent of these funds after allocating for the New Starts
23 Transit Program described in sub-subparagraph a. and the Small
24 County Outreach Program described in sub-subparagraph b.; and
25 d. For the purposes of the Transportation Regional
26 Incentive Program specified in s. 339.2819, 25 percent of
27 these funds after allocating for the New Starts Transit
28 Program described in sub-subparagraph a. and the Small County
29 Outreach Program described in sub-subparagraph b.
30 2. The Water Protection and Sustainability Program
31 Trust Fund in the Department of Environmental Protection in
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1 the amount of $100 million in each fiscal year, to be paid in
2 quarterly installments and used as required by s. 403.890.
3 3. The Public Education Capital Outlay and Debt
4 Service Trust Fund in the Department of Education in the
5 amount of $105 million in each fiscal year, to be paid in
6 monthly installments with $75 million used to fund the
7 Classrooms for Kids Program created in s. 1013.735, and $30
8 million to be used to fund the High Growth County District
9 Capital Outlay Assistance Grant Program created in s.
10 1013.738. If required, new facilities constructed under the
11 Classrooms for Kids Program must meet the requirements of s.
12 1013.372.
13 4. The Grants and Donations Trust Fund in the
14 Department of Community Affairs in the amount of $3 $3.25
15 million in each fiscal year to be paid in monthly
16 installments, with $3 million to be used to fund technical
17 assistance to local governments and school boards on the
18 requirements and implementation of this act and $250,000 to be
19 used to fund the Century Commission established in s.
20 163.3247.
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22 Moneys distributed pursuant to this paragraph may not be
23 pledged for debt service unless such pledge is approved by
24 referendum of the voters.
25 Section 3. Section 163.3247, Florida Statutes, is
26 repealed.
27 Section 4. The sum of $550,000 in recurring general
28 revenue is appropriated to the Joint Legislative Committee for
29 a Sustainable Florida for the purpose of paying salaries and
30 other administrative expenses of the committee which are
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1 necessary to carry out the provisions of s. 11.74, Florida
2 Statutes, during the 2007-2008 fiscal year.
3 Section 5. This act shall take effect July 1, 2007.
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free-standing executive-branch entity into a joint legislative
9 committee. Its membership expands to eighteen and the
appointment of its members is divided among the Governor and
10 the presiding officers of the Legislature. Its dedicated
funding source in current law is replaced with a separate
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