Florida Senate - 2013                                    SB 1080
       
       
       
       By Senator Evers
       
       
       
       
       2-00740B-13                                           20131080__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public construction projects;
    3         amending s. 255.257, F.S.; requiring state agencies to
    4         use a sustainable building rating system for
    5         construction and renovation projects; amending s.
    6         255.2575, F.S.; requiring state agencies and other
    7         entities to specify certain products associated with
    8         public works projects; providing an effective date.
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   10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   12         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
   13  255.257, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   14         255.257 Energy management; buildings occupied by state
   15  agencies.—
   16         (4) ADOPTION OF STANDARDS.—
   17         (a) Each All state agency agencies shall use adopt a
   18  sustainable building rating system or use a national model green
   19  building code for each all new building buildings and renovation
   20  renovations to an existing building buildings.
   21         Section 2. Subsection (4) is added to section 255.2575,
   22  Florida Statutes, to read:
   23         255.2575 Energy-efficient and sustainable buildings.—
   24         (4) All state agencies, county officials, boards of county
   25  commissioners, school boards, city councils, city commissioners,
   26  and all other public officers of state boards or commissions
   27  that are charged with the letting of contracts for public work,
   28  for the construction of public bridges, buildings, and other
   29  structures must specify lumber, timber, and other forest
   30  products produced and manufactured in Florida if such products
   31  are available and their price, fitness, and quality are equal.
   32  This subsection does not apply to plywood specified for
   33  monolithic concrete forms, if the structural or service
   34  requirements for timber for a particular job cannot be supplied
   35  by native species, or if the construction is financed in whole
   36  or in part from federal funds with the requirement that there be
   37  no restrictions as to species or place of manufacture.
   38         Section 3. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.