| 1 | Representative(s) Kravitz offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 329 and 330, insert: |
| 5 | Section 3. Subsection (1) of section 120.52, Florida |
| 6 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 7 | 120.52 Definitions.--As used in this act: |
| 8 | (1) "Agency" means: |
| 9 | (a) The Governor in the exercise of all executive powers |
| 10 | other than those derived from the constitution. |
| 11 | (b) Each: |
| 12 | 1. State officer and state department, and each |
| 13 | departmental unit described in s. 20.04. |
| 14 | 2. Authority, including a regional water supply authority. |
| 15 | 3. Board. |
| 16 | 4. Commission, including the Commission on Ethics and the |
| 17 | Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission when acting pursuant |
| 18 | to statutory authority derived from the Legislature. |
| 19 | 5. Regional planning agency. |
| 20 | 6. Multicounty special district with a majority of its |
| 21 | governing board comprised of nonelected persons. |
| 22 | 7. Educational units. |
| 23 | 8. Entity described in chapters 163, 373, 380, and 582 and |
| 24 | s. 186.504. |
| 25 | (c) Each other unit of government in the state, including |
| 26 | counties and municipalities, to the extent they are expressly |
| 27 | made subject to this act by general or special law or existing |
| 28 | judicial decisions. |
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| 30 | This definition does not include any legal entity or agency |
| 31 | created in whole or in part pursuant to chapter 361, part II, |
| 32 | any metropolitan planning organization created pursuant to s. |
| 33 | 339.175, any separate legal or administrative entity created |
| 34 | pursuant to s. 339.175 of which a metropolitan planning |
| 35 | organization is a member, an expressway authority pursuant to |
| 36 | chapter 348 or transportation authority under chapter 349, any |
| 37 | legal or administrative entity created by an interlocal |
| 38 | agreement pursuant to s. 163.01(7), unless any party to such |
| 39 | agreement is otherwise an agency as defined in this subsection, |
| 40 | or any multicounty special district with a majority of its |
| 41 | governing board comprised of elected persons; however, this |
| 42 | definition shall include a regional water supply authority. |
| 43 | Section 4. Subsection (3) of section 349.03, Florida |
| 44 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 45 | 349.03 Jacksonville Transportation Authority.-- |
| 46 | (3) The terms of appointed members shall be for 4 years |
| 47 | deemed to have commenced on June 1 of the year in which they are |
| 48 | appointed. Each member shall hold office until a successor has |
| 49 | been appointed and has qualified. A vacancy during a term shall |
| 50 | be filled by the respective appointing authority only for the |
| 51 | balance of the unexpired term. Any member appointed to the |
| 52 | authority for two consecutive full terms shall not be eligible |
| 53 | for appointment to the next succeeding term. One of the members |
| 54 | so appointed shall be designated annually by the members as |
| 55 | chair of the authority, one member shall be designated annually |
| 56 | as the vice chair of the authority, one member shall be |
| 57 | designated annually as the secretary of the authority, and one |
| 58 | member shall be designated annually as the treasurer of the |
| 59 | authority. The members of the authority shall not be entitled to |
| 60 | compensation, but shall be reimbursed for travel expenses or |
| 61 | other expenses actually incurred in their duties as provided by |
| 62 | law. Four voting members of the authority shall constitute a |
| 63 | quorum, and no resolution adopted by the authority shall become |
| 64 | effective unless with the affirmative vote of at least four |
| 65 | members. The authority shall may employ an executive director, |
| 66 | and the executive director may hire such staff, permanent or |
| 67 | temporary, as he or she may determine and may organize the staff |
| 68 | of the authority into such departments and units as he or she |
| 69 | may determine divisions as it deems necessary. The executive |
| 70 | director It may appoint department directors, deputy directors, |
| 71 | division chiefs, and staff assistants to the executive director, |
| 72 | as he or she may determine. In so appointing the executive |
| 73 | director, the authority may fix the compensation of such |
| 74 | appointee those appointees, who shall serve at the pleasure of |
| 75 | the authority. All employees of the authority shall be exempt |
| 76 | from the provisions of part II of chapter 110. The authority may |
| 77 | employ such financial advisers and consultants, technical |
| 78 | experts, engineers, and agents and employees, permanent or |
| 79 | temporary, as it may require and may fix the compensation and |
| 80 | qualifications of such persons, firms, or corporations. The |
| 81 | authority may delegate to one or more of its agents or employees |
| 82 | such of its powers as it shall deem necessary to carry out the |
| 83 | purposes of this chapter, subject always to the supervision and |
| 84 | control of the governing body of the authority. |
| 85 | Section 5. Paragraph (n) is added to subsection (2) of |
| 86 | section 349.04, Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 87 | 349.04 Purposes and powers.-- |
| 88 | (2) The authority is hereby granted, and shall have and |
| 89 | may exercise all powers necessary, appurtenant, convenient, or |
| 90 | incidental to the carrying out of the aforesaid purposes, |
| 91 | including, but without being limited to, the right and power: |
| 92 | (n) To adopt rules to carry out the powers and obligations |
| 93 | herein granted, which set forth a purpose, necessary |
| 94 | definitions, forms, general conditions and procedures, and fines |
| 95 | and penalties, including, without limitation, suspension or |
| 96 | debarment, and charges for nonperformance, with respect to any |
| 97 | aspect of the work or function of the authority for the |
| 98 | permitting, planning, funding, design, acquisition, |
| 99 | construction, equipping, operation, and maintenance of |
| 100 | transportation facilities, transit and highway, within the |
| 101 | state, provided or operated by the authority or others in |
| 102 | cooperation with or at the direction of the authority, and for |
| 103 | carrying out all other purposes of the authority set forth or |
| 104 | authorized in this chapter. |
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| 108 | Remove line 9 and insert: |
| 109 | reimbursement rates; amending s. 120.52, F.S.; excluding |
| 110 | expressway authorities under ch. 349, F.S., from the |
| 111 | definition of the term "agency" for certain purposes; |
| 112 | amending s. 349.03, F.S.; revising provisions for officers |
| 113 | and employees of the Jacksonville Transportation |
| 114 | Authority; amending s. 349.04, F.S.; providing for the |
| 115 | adoption of rules by the Jacksonville Transportation |
| 116 | Authority for certain purposes; amending s. 121.021, F.S.; |
| 117 | defining |