Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 424
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/20/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Finance and Tax (Ring) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete line 1137
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 24. Section 120.52, Florida Statutes, is amended to
    6  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, including the Board of Governors of the State
   16  University System and a state university board of trustees when
   17  acting pursuant to statutory authority derived from the
   18  Legislature.
   19         4. Commission, including the Commission on Ethics and the
   20  Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission when acting pursuant
   21  to statutory authority derived from the Legislature.
   22         5. Regional planning agency.
   23         6. Multicounty special district with a majority of its
   24  governing board comprised of nonelected persons.
   25         7. Educational units.
   26         8. Entity described in chapters 163, 373, 380, and 582 and
   27  s. 186.504.
   28         (c) Each other unit of government in the state, including
   29  counties and municipalities, to the extent they are expressly
   30  made subject to this act by general or special law or existing
   31  judicial decisions.
   32  
   33  This definition does not include any legal entity or agency
   34  created in whole or in part pursuant to chapter 361, part II,
   35  any metropolitan planning organization created pursuant to s.
   36  339.175, any separate legal or administrative entity created
   37  pursuant to s. 339.175 of which a metropolitan planning
   38  organization is a member, an expressway authority pursuant to
   39  chapter 348 or any transportation authority under chapter 343 or
   40  chapter 349, any legal or administrative entity created by an
   41  interlocal agreement pursuant to s. 163.01(7), unless any party
   42  to such agreement is otherwise an agency as defined in this
   43  subsection, or any multicounty special district with a majority
   44  of its governing board comprised of elected persons; however,
   45  this definition shall include a regional water supply authority.
   46         Section 25. This act shall take effect July 1, 2009.
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   48  ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
   49  And the title is amended as follows:
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   51         Delete line 109
   52  and insert:
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   54         amending s. 120.52, F.S.; redefining the term “agency”
   55         for purposes of ch. 120, F.S., to include certain
   56         regional transportation and transit authorities;
   57         providing an effective date.