Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1554
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  04/16/2015           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and
       Economic Development (Brandes) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 2814 and 2815
    4  insert:
    5         Section 58. If a municipality or county applies
    6  transportation concurrency, it may not require a developer to
    7  pay a fee for the removal of vegetation within the right-of-way
    8  limits of road improvements for which the developer completed or
    9  contributed funding as required for transportation concurrency
   10  for a development project.
   11         (2) This section does not affect the ability of a
   12  municipality or county to require any tree removal permits or
   13  tree removal plans.
   14         (3) As used in this section, the term “fee” does not
   15  include any costs associated with applying for a tree removal
   16  permit or preparing a tree removal plan.
   17         (4) This section does not affect a municipality’s or a
   18  county’s ability to establish and enforce landscaping
   19  requirements.
   20         (5) A municipality or a county may, by majority vote of its
   21  governing body, exempt itself from this section.
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   24  And the title is amended as follows:
   25         Delete line 320
   26  and insert:
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