Florida Senate - 2015                                     SB 876
       
       
        
       By Senator Dean
       
       
       
       
       
       5-01222-15                                             2015876__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Beirut Memorial; creating s.
    3         265.005, F.S.; providing legislative intent; requiring
    4         the Department of Management Services to establish a
    5         Beirut Memorial, subject to legislative appropriation;
    6         requiring the department to consider recommendations
    7         of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs and the Florida
    8         Historical Commission regarding specific aspects of
    9         the memorial; requiring the Department of Management
   10         Services to coordinate with the Division of Historical
   11         Resources regarding design and placement of the
   12         memorial; providing an effective date.
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   14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   16         Section 1. Section 265.005, Florida Statutes, is created to
   17  read:
   18         265.005 Beirut Memorial.—
   19         (1) It is the intent of the Legislature to recognize and
   20  honor the sacrifices endured by members of the United States
   21  Armed Forces who lost their lives as a result of the explosion
   22  of a truck laden with compressed gas-enhanced explosives which
   23  collapsed the headquarters building of the 1st Battalion, 8th
   24  Marines Regiment in Beirut, Lebanon, on October 23, 1983.
   25         (2) The Department of Management Services shall, subject to
   26  legislative appropriation, establish a Beirut Memorial. The
   27  Department of Management Services shall approve the design and
   28  placement of the Beirut Memorial in the Capitol Complex, as
   29  defined in s. 281.01, after considering recommendations from the
   30  Department of Veterans’ Affairs and, pursuant to ss. 265.111 and
   31  267.0612(9), the Florida Historical Commission with regard to
   32  the appropriate design and placement of the memorial. The
   33  Department of Management Services shall also coordinate with the
   34  Division of Historical Resources of the Department of State
   35  regarding the memorial’s design and placement, subject to the
   36  division’s powers and duties under s. 267.031.
   37         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.