Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 318
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  01/25/2016           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on General Government (Altman)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 425 - 437
    4  and insert:
    5         (5) No permit to drill a gas or oil well shall be granted
    6  within the jurisdictional boundaries of any municipality or
    7  county, unless the applicant provides notice of the permit
    8  application, by certified mail, to the corporate limits of any
    9  municipality, unless the governing authority of the county or
   10  municipality. The applicant shall include a copy of the notice
   11  with the permit application shall have first duly approved the
   12  application for such permit by resolution.
   13         (10) The department may not approve a permit to authorize a
   14  high-pressure well stimulation until the department adopts rules
   15  for high-pressure well stimulations which are based upon the
   16  findings of the study required pursuant to s. 377.2436 and such
   17  rules take effect.
   18         (11) The rules for high-pressure well stimulation shall be
   19  submitted to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the
   20  House of Representatives and such rules may not take effect
   21  until they are ratified by the Legislature.
   22  
   23  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   24  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   25         Delete lines 394 - 397
   26  and insert:
   27  377.24, Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsections (10) and
   28  (11) are added to that section, to read:
   29  
   30  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete lines 19 - 23
   33  and insert:
   34         multiple activities; revising provisions that prohibit
   35         the Division of Water Resource Management from
   36         granting permits to drill gas or oil wells; providing
   37         notice requirements for an application of such permit;
   38         prohibiting