Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1080
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/09/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Hays) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 255.20, Florida
    6  Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         255.20 Local bids and contracts for public construction
    8  works; specification of state-produced lumber.—
    9         (3)(a) All county officials, boards of county
   10  commissioners, school boards, city councils, city commissioners,
   11  and all other public officers of state boards or commissions
   12  that are charged with the letting of contracts for public work,
   13  for the construction of public bridges, buildings, and other
   14  structures must specify in the contract lumber, timber, and
   15  other forest products produced and manufactured in this state,
   16  if wood is a component of the public work, and if such products
   17  are available and their price, fitness, and quality are equal.
   18         (b) This subsection does not apply:
   19         1. To plywood specified for monolithic concrete forms.,
   20         2. If the structural or service requirements for timber for
   21  a particular job cannot be supplied by native species., or
   22         3. If the construction is financed in whole or in part from
   23  federal funds with the requirement that there be no restrictions
   24  as to species or place of manufacture.
   25         4. To transportation projects for which federal aid funds
   26  are available.
   27         Section 2. Subsection (4) is added to section 255.2575,
   28  Florida Statutes, to read:
   29         255.2575 Energy-efficient and sustainable buildings.—
   30         (4)(a) All state agencies, county officials, boards of
   31  county commissioners, school boards, city councils, city
   32  commissioners, and all other public officers of state boards or
   33  commissions that are charged with the letting of contracts for
   34  public work, for the construction of public bridges, buildings,
   35  and other structures must specify in the contract lumber,
   36  timber, and other forest products produced and manufactured in
   37  this state, if wood is a component of the public work, and if
   38  such products are available and their price, fitness, and
   39  quality are equal.
   40         (b) This subsection does not apply:
   41         1. To plywood specified for monolithic concrete forms.
   42         2. If the structural or service requirements for timber for
   43  a particular job cannot be supplied by native species.
   44         3. If the construction is financed in whole or in part from
   45  federal funds with the requirement that there be no restrictions
   46  as to species or place of manufacture.
   47         4. To transportation projects for which federal aid funds
   48  are available.
   49         Section 3. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
   50  255.257, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   51         255.257 Energy management; buildings occupied by state
   52  agencies.—
   53         (4) ADOPTION OF STANDARDS.—
   54         (a) Each All state agency agencies shall use adopt a
   55  sustainable building rating system or use a national model green
   56  building code for each all new building buildings and renovation
   57  renovations to an existing building buildings.
   58         Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.
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   60  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   61         And the title is amended as follows:
   62         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   63  and insert:
   64                        A bill to be entitled                      
   65         An act relating to public construction projects;
   66         amending ss. 255.20 and 255.2575, F.S.; requiring
   67         governmental entities to specify certain products
   68         associated with public works projects; providing for
   69         applicability; amending s. 255.257, F.S.; requiring
   70         state agencies to use certain building rating systems
   71         and building codes for each new construction and
   72         renovation project; providing an effective date.