Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (730310) for CS for SB 1132
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/25/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Richter) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 4507 and 4508
    4  insert:
    5         Section 80. The Florida Transportation Commission shall
    6  conduct a study of the potential for the state to obtain revenue
    7  from any parking meters or other parking time-limit devices that
    8  regulate designated parking spaces located within or along the
    9  right-of-way limits of a state road. The commission may retain
   10  such experts as are reasonably necessary to complete the study,
   11  and the department shall pay the expenses of such experts. On or
   12  before August 31, 2013, each municipality and county that
   13  receives revenue from any parking meters or other parking time
   14  limit devices that regulate designated parking spaces located
   15  within or along the right-of-way limits of a state road shall
   16  provide the commission a written inventory of the location of
   17  each such meter or device and the total revenue collected from
   18  such locations during the last 3 fiscal years. Each municipality
   19  and county shall at the same time inform the commission of any
   20  pledge or commitment by the municipality or county of such
   21  revenues to the payment of debt service on any bonds or other
   22  debt issued by the municipality or county. The commission shall
   23  consider the information provided by the municipalities and
   24  counties, together with such other matters as it deems
   25  appropriate, including, but not limited to, the use of variable
   26  rate parking, and shall develop policy recommendations regarding
   27  the manner and extent that revenues generated by regulating
   28  parking within the right-of-way limits of a state road may be
   29  allocated between the department and municipalities and
   30  counties. The commission shall develop specific recommendations
   31  concerning the allocation of revenues generated by meters or
   32  devices regulating such parking that were installed before July
   33  1, 2013, and the allocation of revenues that may be generated by
   34  meters or devices installed thereafter. The commission shall
   35  complete the study and provide a written report of its findings
   36  and conclusions to the Governor, the President of the Senate,
   37  the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the chairs of
   38  each of the appropriations committees of the Legislature by
   39  October 31, 2013.
   40         (2) The Legislature finds that preservation of the status
   41  quo pending the commission’s study and the Legislature’s review
   42  of the commission’s report is appropriate and desirable. From
   43  July 1, 2013, through July 1, 2014, no county or municipality
   44  shall install any parking meters or other parking time-limit
   45  devices that regulate designated parking spaces located within
   46  or along the right-of-way limits of a state road. This
   47  subsection does not prohibit the replacement of meters or
   48  similar devices installed before July 1, 2013, with new devices
   49  that regulate the same designated parking spaces.
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   51  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   52         And the title is amended as follows:
   53         Delete line 398
   54  and insert:
   55         prohibition; requiring the Florida Transportation
   56         Commission to study the potential for state revenue
   57         from parking meters and other parking time-limit
   58         devices; authorizing to commission to retain experts;
   59         requiring the department to pay for the experts;
   60         requiring certain information from municipalities and
   61         counties; requiring certain information to be
   62         considered in the study; requiring a written report;
   63         providing for a moratorium on new parking meters of
   64         other parking time-limit devices on the state right
   65         of-way; providing an exception; providing effective
   66         dates.