Florida Senate - 2009                             CS for SB 2606
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Regulated Industries; and Senator Pruitt
       
       
       
       
       580-04980-09                                          20092606c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to stormwater management system
    3         design; establishing a task force to develop
    4         recommendations relating to stormwater management
    5         system design; specifying study criteria; providing
    6         for task force membership, meetings, and expiration;
    7         requiring the task force to submit findings and
    8         legislative recommendations to the Legislature by a
    9         specified date; 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 task force is established to develop
   14  legislative recommendations relating to stormwater management
   15  system design in the state. The task force 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 task force
   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  the Secretary of Environmental Protection, and the Secretary of
   37  Transportation shall each appoint one member to the task force.
   38         (b) Members of the task force may not be reimbursed for
   39  travel, per diem, or any other costs associated with serving on
   40  the task force.
   41         (c) The task force 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 task force shall expire on November 1, 2009.
   45         (3) The task force 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.