Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 372
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  11/17/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Brandes) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Before line 42
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 189.0695, Florida Statutes, is created
    6  to read:
    7         189.0695 Special districts regulating transit or
    8  transportation services; procedures.—An independent special
    9  district that regulates transit or transportation services is
   10  subject to the Administrative Procedure Act, chapter 120.
   11         Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
   12  120.52, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         120.52 Definitions.—As used in this act:
   14         (1) “Agency” means the following officers or governmental
   15  entities if acting pursuant to powers other than those derived
   16  from the constitution:
   17         (a) The Governor; each state officer and state department,
   18  and each departmental unit described in s. 20.04; the Board of
   19  Governors of the State University System; the Commission on
   20  Ethics; the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; a
   21  regional water supply authority; a regional planning agency; a
   22  multicounty special district, but only if a majority of its
   23  governing board is comprised of nonelected persons; an
   24  independent special district that regulates transit or
   25  transportation services; educational units; and each entity
   26  described in chapters 163, 373, 380, and 582 and s. 186.504.
   27  
   28  This definition does not include a municipality or legal entity
   29  created solely by a municipality; a legal entity or agency
   30  created in whole or in part pursuant to part II of chapter 361;
   31  a metropolitan planning organization created pursuant to s.
   32  339.175; a separate legal or administrative entity created
   33  pursuant to s. 339.175 of which a metropolitan planning
   34  organization is a member; an expressway authority pursuant to
   35  chapter 348 or any transportation authority or commission under
   36  chapter 343 or chapter 349; or a legal or administrative entity
   37  created by an interlocal agreement pursuant to s. 163.01(7),
   38  unless any party to such agreement is otherwise an agency as
   39  defined in this subsection.
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   41  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   42  And the title is amended as follows:
   43         Delete line 2
   44  and insert:
   45         An act relating to administrative procedures; creating
   46         s. 189.0695, F.S.; requiring certain independent
   47         special districts to be subject to ch. 120, F.S.;
   48         amending s. 120.52, F.S.; redefining the term “agency”
   49         to conform to changes made by the act; amending