Florida Senate - 2012 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 1866
Barcode 410482
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
02/03/2012 .
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The Committee on Transportation (Gibson) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 3303 and 3304
4 insert:
5 Section 65. Paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of section
6 348.0003, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
7 348.0003 Expressway authority; formation; membership.—
8 (4)
9 (c) Members of each expressway authority, transportation
10 authority, bridge authority, or toll authority, created pursuant
11 to this chapter or, chapter 343, or chapter 349 or any other
12 general legislative enactment, must shall comply with the
13 applicable financial disclosure requirements of s. 8, Art. II of
14 the State Constitution. This paragraph does not subject any
15 statutorily created authority, other than an expressway
16 authority created under this part, to any other requirement of
17 this part except the requirement of this paragraph.
18 Section 66. Subsection (3) of section 349.03, Florida
19 Statutes, is amended to read:
20 349.03 Jacksonville Transportation Authority.—
21 (3) The terms of appointed members shall be for 4 years and
22 deemed to have commenced on June 1 of the year in which they are
23 appointed. Each member shall hold office until a successor has
24 been appointed and has qualified. A vacancy during a term shall
25 be filled by the respective appointing authority only for the
26 balance of the unexpired term. Any member appointed to the
27 authority for two consecutive full terms may shall not be
28 appointed eligible for appointment to the next succeeding term.
29 One of the members so appointed shall be designated annually by
30 the members as chair of the authority, one member shall be
31 designated annually as the vice chair of the authority, one
32 member shall be designated annually as the secretary of the
33 authority, and one member shall be designated annually as the
34 treasurer of the authority. The members of the authority are
35 shall not be entitled to compensation, but shall be reimbursed
36 for travel expenses or other expenses actually incurred in their
37 duties as provided by law. Four voting members of the authority
38 shall constitute a quorum, and no resolution adopted by the
39 authority is shall become effective without unless with the
40 affirmative vote of at least four members. Members of the
41 authority shall file a statement of financial interest with the
42 Commission on Ethics as provided in s. 112.3145(2)(b) as their
43 mandatory financial disclosure.
44 (a) The authority shall employ an executive director, and
45 the executive director may hire such staff, permanent or
46 temporary, as he or she may determine and may organize the staff
47 of the authority into such departments and units as he or she
48 may determine. The executive director may appoint department
49 directors, deputy directors, division chiefs, and staff
50 assistants to the executive director, as he or she may
51 determine. In so appointing the executive director, the
52 authority may fix the compensation of such appointee, who shall
53 serve at the pleasure of the authority. All employees of the
54 authority shall be exempt from the provisions of part II of
55 chapter 110.
56 (b) The authority may employ such financial advisers and
57 consultants, technical experts, engineers, and agents and
58 employees, permanent or temporary, as it may require and may fix
59 the compensation and qualifications of such persons, firms, or
60 corporations. The authority may delegate to one or more of its
61 agents or employees such of its powers as it deems shall deem
62 necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, subject
63 always to the supervision and control of the governing body of
64 the authority.
65 (c) All employees of the authority are exempt from part II
66 of chapter 110.
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69 And the title is amended as follows:
70 Delete line 248
71 and insert:
72 authority; amending s. 348.0003, F.S.; removing
73 members of the governing body of the Jacksonville
74 Transportation Authority from those entities required
75 to comply with certain constitutional financial
76 disclosure requirements; amending s. 349.03, F.S.;
77 requiring that members of the authority file a
78 statement of financial interest with the Commission on
79 Ethics as their mandatory financial disclosure;
80 amending s. 349.04, F.S.; authorizing the