Florida Senate - 2012 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS/CS/CS/HB 599, 1st Eng. Barcode 426610 LEGISLATIVE ACTION Senate . House . . . Floor: WD . 03/09/2012 07:36 PM . ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Senators Dean and Latvala moved the following: 1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 2 3 Between lines 41 and 42 4 insert: 5 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section 6 20.23, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 7 20.23 Department of Transportation.—There is created a 8 Department of Transportation which shall be a decentralized 9 agency. 10 (5)(a) The operations of the department shall be organized 11 into seven districts, each headed by a district secretary, and a 12 turnpike enterprise and a rail enterprise, each enterprise 13 headed by an executive director. The district secretaries and 14 the executive directors shall be registered professional 15 engineers in accordance withthe provisions ofchapter 471 or 16 the laws of another state, or, in lieu of professional engineer 17 registration, a district secretary or executive director may 18 hold an advanced degree in an appropriate related discipline, 19 such as a Master of Business Administration. The headquarters of 20 the districts shall be located in Polk, Columbia, Washington, 21 Broward, Volusia, Miami-Dade, and Hillsborough Counties. The 22 headquarters of the turnpike enterprise shall be located in 23 Orange County. The headquarters of the rail enterprise shall be 24 located in Leon County. In order to provide for efficient 25 operations and to expedite the decisionmaking process, the 26 department shall provide for maximum decentralization to the 27 districts. 28 Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section 29 339.175, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 30 (4) APPORTIONMENT.— 31 (a) The Governor shall, with the agreement of the affected 32 units of general-purpose local government as required by federal 33 rules and regulations, apportion the membership on the 34 applicable M.P.O. among the various governmental entities within 35 the area. At the request of a majority of the affected units of 36 general-purpose local government comprising an M.P.O., the 37 Governor and a majority of units of general-purpose local 38 government serving on an M.P.O. shall cooperatively agree upon 39 and prescribe who may serve as an alternate member and a method 40 for appointing alternate members who may vote at any M.P.O. 41 meeting that an alternate member attends in place of a regular 42 member. The method shall be set forth as a part of the 43 interlocal agreement describing the M.P.O.’s membership or in 44 the M.P.O.’s operating procedures and bylaws. The governmental 45 entity so designated shall appoint the appropriate number of 46 members to the M.P.O. from eligible officials. Representatives 47 of the department shall serve as nonvoting advisers tomembers48ofthe M.P.O. governing board. Additional nonvoting advisers may 49 be appointed by the M.P.O. as deemed necessary; however, to the 50 maximum extent feasible, each M.P.O. shall seek to appoint 51 nonvoting representatives of various multimodal forms of 52 transportation not otherwise represented by voting members of 53 the M.P.O. An M.P.O. shall appoint nonvoting advisers 54 representing major military installations located within the 55 jurisdictional boundaries of the M.P.O. upon the request of the 56 aforesaid major military installations and subject to the 57 agreement of the M.P.O. All nonvoting advisers may attend and 58 participate fully in governing board meetings but mayshallnot 59have avote orand shall notbe members of the governing board. 60 The Governor shall review the composition of the M.P.O. 61 membership in conjunction with the decennial census as prepared 62 by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the 63 Census, and reapportion it as necessary to comply with 64 subsection (3). 65 66 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================ 67 And the title is amended as follows: 68 Delete line 3 69 and insert: 70 programs; amending s. 20.23, F.S., relating to the 71 Department of Transportation; requiring that district 72 secretaries and executive directors be professional 73 engineers from any state; amending s. 339.175, F.S.; 74 providing that representatives of the department shall 75 serve as nonvoting advisers to the metropolitan 76 planning organization governing board; authorizing the 77 appointment of additional nonvoting advisers; revising 78 the