| 1 | A bill to be entitled |
| 2 | An act relating to stormwater management system design; |
| 3 | establishing a study commission to develop recommendations |
| 4 | relating to stormwater management system design; |
| 5 | specifying study criteria; providing for commission |
| 6 | membership, meetings, and expiration; requiring the |
| 7 | commission to submit findings and legislative |
| 8 | recommendations to the Legislature by a specified date; |
| 9 | providing an effective date. |
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| 11 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 13 | Section 1. (1) A study commission is established to |
| 14 | develop legislative recommendations relating to stormwater |
| 15 | management system design in the state. The commission shall: |
| 16 | (a) Review the Joint Professional Engineers and Landscape |
| 17 | Architecture Committee Report conducted pursuant to s. 17, |
| 18 | chapter 88-347, Laws of Florida, and determine the current |
| 19 | validity of the report and the need to revise any of the |
| 20 | conclusions or recommendations. |
| 21 | (b) Determine how a licensed and registered professional |
| 22 | might demonstrate competency for stormwater management system |
| 23 | design. |
| 24 | (c) Determine how the Board of Professional Engineers and |
| 25 | the Board of Landscape Architecture might administer |
| 26 | certification tests or continuing education requirements for |
| 27 | stormwater management system design. |
| 28 | (d) Provide recommendations for grandfathering the rights |
| 29 | of licensed professionals who currently practice stormwater |
| 30 | management design in a manner that will allow them to continue |
| 31 | to practice without meeting any new requirements the commission |
| 32 | recommends be placed on licensed professionals in the future. |
| 33 | (2)(a) The Board of Landscape Architecture, the Board of |
| 34 | Professional Engineers, the Florida Engineering Society, the |
| 35 | Florida Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, |
| 36 | and the Secretary of Environmental Protection shall each appoint |
| 37 | one member to the commission. |
| 38 | (b) Members of the commission may not be reimbursed for |
| 39 | travel, per diem, or any other costs associated with serving on |
| 40 | the commission. |
| 41 | (c) The commission shall meet a minimum of four times |
| 42 | either in person or via teleconference; however, a minimum of |
| 43 | two meetings shall be public hearings with testimony. |
| 44 | (d) The commission shall expire on November 1, 2009. |
| 45 | (3) The commission shall provide its findings and |
| 46 | legislative recommendations to the President of the Senate and |
| 47 | the Speaker of the House of Representatives by November 1, 2009. |
| 48 | Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009. |