Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1150
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                   Comm: WD            .                                
                  02/16/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability
       (Hays) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 52 and 53
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Paragraph (c) of subsection (4) of section
    6  120.54, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         120.54 Rulemaking.—
    8         (4) EMERGENCY RULES.—
    9         (c) An emergency rule adopted under this subsection shall
   10  not be effective for a period longer than 90 days and shall not
   11  be renewable, except when the agency finds that the immediate
   12  danger remains and continues to require emergency action, the
   13  agency has initiated rulemaking to adopt rules addressing the
   14  subject of the emergency rule, and one of the following
   15  conditions has delayed implementation of the rules either:
   16         1. A challenge to the proposed rules has been filed and
   17  remains pending; or
   18         2. The proposed rules have been filed for adoption and are
   19  awaiting ratification by the Legislature pursuant to any law
   20  requiring ratification for the rules to be effective s.
   21  120.541(3).
   22  
   23  Nothing in this paragraph prohibits the agency from adopting a
   24  rule or rules identical to the emergency rule through the
   25  rulemaking procedures specified in subsection (3).
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   28  And the title is amended as follows:
   29         Delete line 15
   30  and insert:
   31         exceptions; providing applicability; amending s.
   32         120.54, F.S.; revising circumstances under which
   33         emergency rules may be renewed; providing an