Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 950
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/12/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Communications, Energy, and Public Utilities
       (Braynon) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 188 and 189
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Subsection (5) is added to section 180.191,
    6  Florida Statutes, to read:
    7         180.191 Limitation on rates charged consumer outside city
    8  limits.—
    9         (5) Any water and wastewater utility customer outside the
   10  boundaries of a municipality that is located within a county
   11  having a population of more than 1.5 million persons, as
   12  reported in the most recent United States Decennial Census, that
   13  was incorporated after 2002, and that has a population in excess
   14  of 80,000 persons at the time of its incorporation, is exempt
   15  from the rate-setting methodology set forth in subsection (1)
   16  which otherwise applies to consumers outside the boundaries of
   17  the municipality that provides water or wastewater services.
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   19  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   20  And the title is amended as follows:
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   22         Delete line 32
   23  and insert:
   24         conditions; amending s. 180.191, F.S.; providing an
   25         exemption from the rate-setting methodology used to
   26         set water and wastewater utility rates for consumers
   27         outside the boundaries of a municipality supplying the
   28         water or wastewater services; providing an effective
   29         date.