Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 516
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Brandes) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (926750) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 64 and 65
    5  insert:
    6         Section 2. Section 189.0695, Florida Statutes, is created
    7  to read:
    8         189.0695 Special districts regulating transit or
    9  transportation services; procedures.—An independent special
   10  district that regulates transit or transportation services is
   11  subject to the Administrative Procedure Act, chapter 120.
   12         Section 3. 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 special district that regulates transit or
   26  transportation services; educational units; and each entity
   27  described in chapters 163, 373, 380, and 582 and s. 186.504.
   28  
   29  This definition does not include a municipality or legal entity
   30  created solely by a municipality; a legal entity or agency
   31  created in whole or in part pursuant to part II of chapter 361;
   32  a metropolitan planning organization created pursuant to s.
   33  339.175; a separate legal or administrative entity created
   34  pursuant to s. 339.175 of which a metropolitan planning
   35  organization is a member; an expressway authority pursuant to
   36  chapter 348 or any transportation authority or commission under
   37  chapter 343 or chapter 349; or a legal or administrative entity
   38  created by an interlocal agreement pursuant to s. 163.01(7),
   39  unless any party to such agreement is otherwise an agency as
   40  defined in this subsection.
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   42  And the title is amended as follows:
   43         Delete line 7
   44  and insert:
   45         made by this act; creating s. 189.0695, F.S.;
   46         requiring certain independent special districts to be
   47         subject to ch. 120, F.S.; amending s. 120.52, F.S.;
   48         redefining the term “agency”; providing an effective
   49         date.