Florida Senate - 2017 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. PCS (304644) for CS for SB 1118
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
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The Committee on Appropriations (Brandes) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 134 and 135
4 insert:
5 Section 1. Subsection (1) and paragraph (a) of subsection
6 (4) of section 20.23, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
7 20.23 Department of Transportation.—There is created a
8 Department of Transportation which shall be a decentralized
9 agency.
10 (1)(a) The Department of Transportation shall consist of:
11 1. A central office that establishes policies and
12 procedures; and
13 2. Districts that carry out projects as authorized or
14 required under the policies and procedures implemented by the
15 central office pursuant to paragraph (3)(a).
16 (b)(a) The head of the Department of Transportation is the
17 Secretary of Transportation. The secretary shall be appointed by
18 the Governor from among three persons nominated by the Florida
19 Transportation Commission and shall be subject to confirmation
20 by the Senate. The secretary shall serve at the pleasure of the
21 Governor.
22 (c)(b) The secretary shall be a proven, effective
23 administrator who by a combination of education and experience
24 shall clearly possess a broad knowledge of the administrative,
25 financial, and technical aspects of the development, operation,
26 and regulation of transportation systems and facilities or
27 comparable systems and facilities.
28 (d)(c) The secretary shall provide to the Florida
29 Transportation Commission or its staff, such assistance,
30 information, and documents as are requested by the commission or
31 its staff to enable the commission to fulfill its duties and
32 responsibilities.
33 (e)(d) The secretary may appoint up to three assistant
34 secretaries who shall be directly responsible to the secretary
35 and who shall perform such duties as are assigned by the
36 secretary. The secretary shall designate to an assistant
37 secretary the duties related to enhancing economic prosperity,
38 including, but not limited to, the responsibility of liaison
39 with the head of economic development in the Executive Office of
40 the Governor. Such assistant secretary shall be directly
41 responsible for providing the Executive Office of the Governor
42 with investment opportunities and transportation projects that
43 expand the state’s role as a global hub for trade and investment
44 and enhance the supply chain system in the state to process,
45 assemble, and ship goods to markets throughout the eastern
46 United States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Latin America. The
47 secretary may delegate to any assistant secretary the authority
48 to act in the absence of the secretary.
49 (f)1.(e) Any secretary appointed after July 1, 2019 5,
50 1989, and the assistant secretaries are shall be exempt from the
51 provisions of part III of chapter 110 and shall receive
52 compensation commensurate with their qualifications and
53 competitive with compensation for comparable responsibility in
54 other public sector organizations and in the private sector.
55 2. The salaries of the secretary and the assistant
56 secretaries shall be established by the Florida Transportation
57 Commission and determined by a market analysis focused on
58 comparably skilled individuals in other public sector
59 organizations, including, but not limited to, expressway
60 authorities, aviation authorities, and port authorities, and on
61 comparably skilled individuals in the private sector. The market
62 analysis must serve as a basis for ascertaining compensation
63 levels required to retain the secretary and assistant
64 secretaries in their positions within the department and to
65 attract external talent that can fulfill the department’s
66 mission and effect change. The salary of the secretary must be
67 at least $180,000. The salary of an assistant secretary must be
68 10 percent below that of the secretary who appoints him or her.
69 (4)(a)1. The operations of the department shall be
70 organized into seven districts, each headed by a district
71 secretary, and a turnpike enterprise and a rail enterprise, each
72 enterprise headed by an executive director. The district
73 secretaries and the executive directors shall be registered
74 professional engineers in accordance with the provisions of
75 chapter 471 or the laws of another state, or, in lieu of
76 professional engineer registration, a district secretary or
77 executive director may hold an advanced degree in an appropriate
78 related discipline, such as a Master of Business Administration.
79 2. The district secretaries and the executive director of
80 the turnpike enterprise are exempt from part III of chapter 110
81 and shall receive compensation commensurate with their
82 qualifications and competitive with compensation for comparable
83 responsibility in other public sector organizations and in the
84 private sector. The salaries of the district secretaries and the
85 executive director of the turnpike enterprise must be 15 percent
86 below that of the secretary, as determined under subparagraph
87 (1)(f)2., who is head of the department at the time the district
88 secretaries and the executive director of the turnpike
89 enterprise take their positions.
90 3. The headquarters of the districts shall be located in
91 Polk, Columbia, Washington, Broward, Volusia, Miami-Dade, and
92 Hillsborough Counties. The headquarters of the turnpike
93 enterprise shall be located in Orange County. The headquarters
94 of the rail enterprise shall be located in Leon County. In order
95 to provide for efficient operations and to expedite the
96 decisionmaking process, the department shall provide for maximum
97 decentralization to the districts.
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100 And the title is amended as follows:
101 Delete line 2
102 and insert:
103 An act relating to transportation; amending s. 20.23,
104 F.S.; requiring the Department of Transportation to
105 consist of a central office and districts, subject to
106 certain requirements; providing that any secretary
107 appointed after a specified date and the assistant
108 secretaries are exempt from membership in the Senior
109 Management Service System Class; requiring the
110 secretary and assistant secretaries to receive
111 compensation competitive with compensation for
112 comparable responsibility in other public sector
113 organizations; requiring that the salaries of the
114 secretary and the assistant secretaries be established
115 by the Florida Transportation Commission and
116 determined by a certain market analysis, subject to
117 certain requirements; providing minimum specified
118 salaries for the secretary and assistant secretaries;
119 providing that the district secretaries and the
120 executive director of the turnpike enterprise are
121 exempt from membership in the Senior Management
122 Service System Class; requiring that the district
123 secretaries receive compensation commensurate with
124 their qualifications and competitive with compensation
125 for comparable responsibility in other public sector
126 organizations and in the private sector; providing
127 salary requirements for the district secretaries;
128 creating s.