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