Florida Senate - 2009 (PROPOSED COMMITTEE BILL) SPB 7048 FOR CONSIDERATION By the Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation 592-01261A-09 20097048__ 1 A bill to be entitled 2 An act relating to a review of the water management 3 districts under the Florida Government Accountability 4 Act; reenacting s. 373.069, F.S., relating to the 5 creation of the water management districts; providing 6 an effective date. 7 8 WHEREAS, ss. 11.901-11.920, Florida Statutes, the Florida 9 Government Accountability Act, subjects the water management 10 districts and each district's respective advisory committees to 11 a sunset review process in order to determine whether the 12 districts should be retained, modified, or abolished, and 13 WHEREAS, the water management districts produced reports 14 providing specific information, as enumerated in s. 11.906, 15 Florida Statutes, and 16 WHEREAS, upon receipt of the reports, the Joint Legislative 17 Sunset Committee and committees of the Senate and the House of 18 Representatives assigned to act as sunset review committees 19 reviewed the reports and requested studies by the Office of 20 Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, and 21 WHEREAS, based on the reports of the water management 22 districts, studies of the Office of Program Policy Analysis and 23 Government Accountability, and public input, the Joint 24 Legislative Sunset Committee and legislative sunset review 25 committees made recommendations on the abolition, continuation, 26 or reorganization of the water management districts and each 27 district's advisory committees; on the need for the functions 28 performed by the districts and the advisory committees; and on 29 the consolidation, transfer, or reorganization of programs 30 within the water management districts, NOW, THEREFORE, 31 32 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 33 34 Section 1. Section 373.069, Florida Statutes, is reenacted. 35 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.