Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 824
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/17/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Bradley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 270 - 300
    4  and insert:
    5         (c) If the responsible public entity solicits proposals
    6  under this section, the solicitation must include a design
    7  criteria package prepared by an architect or engineer licensed
    8  in this state which is sufficient to allow private entities to
    9  prepare a bid or a response. The design criteria package must
   10  specify performance-based criteria for the project, including
   11  the legal description of the site, with survey information;
   12  interior space requirements; material quality standards;
   13  schematic layouts and conceptual design criteria for the
   14  project, with budget estimates; design and construction
   15  schedules; and site and utility requirements A responsible
   16  public entity that is a school board may enter into a
   17  comprehensive agreement only with the approval of the local
   18  governing body.
   19         (d) Before approving a comprehensive agreement approval,
   20  the responsible public entity must determine that the proposed
   21  project:
   22         1. Is in the public’s best interest.
   23         2. Is for a facility that is owned by the responsible
   24  public entity or for a facility for which ownership will be
   25  conveyed to the responsible public entity.
   26         3. Has adequate safeguards in place to ensure that
   27  additional costs or service disruptions are not imposed on the
   28  public in the event of material default or cancellation of the
   29  comprehensive agreement by the responsible public entity.
   30         4. Has adequate safeguards in place to ensure that the
   31  responsible public entity or private entity has the opportunity
   32  to add capacity to the proposed project or other facilities
   33  serving similar predominantly public purposes.
   34         5. Will be owned by the responsible public entity upon
   35  completion, expiration, or termination of the comprehensive
   36  agreement and upon payment of the amounts financed.
   37         (e) Before signing a comprehensive agreement, the
   38  responsible public entity must consider a reasonable finance
   39  plan that is consistent with subsection (9) (11); the qualifying
   40  project cost; revenues by source; available financing; major
   41  assumptions; internal rate of return on private investments, if
   42  governmental funds are assumed in order to deliver a cost
   43  feasible project; and a total cash-flow analysis beginning with
   44  the implementation of the project and extending for the term of
   45  the comprehensive agreement.
   46         (f) In considering an unsolicited proposal, the
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   49  And the title is amended as follows:
   50         Delete line 15
   51  and insert:
   52         comprehensive agreement; requiring a responsible
   53         public entity to include a design criteria package in
   54         a solicitation; specifying requirements for the design
   55         criteria package; revising the conditions