Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1866
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/03/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Transportation (Latvala) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (594398) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Delete lines 3231 - 3303
    5  and insert:
    6  	Section 63. Paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of subsection (2)
    7  of section 343.53, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    8  	343.53 South Florida Regional Transportation Authority.—
    9  	(2) The governing board of the authority shall consist of
   10  nine twelve voting members and one ex officio, nonvoting member,
   11  as follows:
   12  	(c) The Secretary of the Department of Transportation shall
   13  also appoint one of the district secretaries, or his or her
   14  designee, for the districts within which contain the area served
   15  by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority, who will
   16  serve as the ex officio, nonvoting member. is located.
   17  	(d) If the authority’s service area is expanded pursuant to
   18  s. 343.54(5), the county containing the new service area shall
   19  have three four members appointed to the board as follows:
   20         1. The county commission of the county shall elect a
   21  commissioner as that commission’s representative on the board.
   22  The commissioner must be a member of the county commission when
   23  elected and for the full extent of his or her term.
   24         2. The county commission of the county shall appoint a
   25  citizen member to the board who is not a member of the county
   26  commission but who is a resident and a qualified elector of that
   27  county. Insofar as is practicable, the citizen member shall
   28  represent the business and civic interests of the community.
   29         3. The Governor shall appoint two citizen members a citizen
   30  member to the board who are not members is not a member of the
   31  county commission but who are residents and qualified electors
   32  is a resident and a qualified elector of that county.
   33  	(e) The Governor shall appoint six two members to the board
   34  who are residents and qualified electors in the area served by
   35  the authority but who are not residents of the same county and
   36  also not residents of the county in which the district secretary
   37  who was appointed pursuant to paragraph (c) is a resident. No
   38  more than two voting members appointed by the Governor shall be
   39  from the same county.
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   42         And the title is amended as follows:
   43         Delete lines 243 - 246
   44  and insert:
   45         “department”; amending s. 343.53,