Florida Senate - 2018              PROPOSED COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
       Bill No. SB 1200
       
       
       
       
       
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       Proposed Committee Substitute by the Committee on Appropriations
       (Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and
       Economic Development)
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Statewide Mobility Innovation
    3         Program; amending s. 201.15, F.S.; beginning in a
    4         specified fiscal year, revising the annual allocations
    5         in the State Transportation Trust Fund for the
    6         Transportation Regional Incentive Program; providing
    7         for future repeal of a provision that allocates funds
    8         annually to the Florida Rail Enterprise; providing for
    9         annual allocations to the Tampa Bay Area Regional
   10         Transit Authority and the Statewide Mobility
   11         Innovation Program for certain purposes; specifying
   12         requirements for matching funds for the Tampa Bay Area
   13         Regional Transit Authority; requiring the Department
   14         of Transportation to allocate specified funds under
   15         certain circumstances to projects in a certain 5-year
   16         work program in a certain area, in addition to
   17         currently scheduled work program commitments in that
   18         area; creating s. 339.84, F.S.; defining the term
   19         “innovative mobility system”; creating within the
   20         department the Statewide Mobility Innovation Program;
   21         providing goals for the program; beginning in a
   22         specified fiscal year, requiring the department to use
   23         specified funds in a county to fund the design and
   24         construction of a certain innovative mobility system;
   25         providing requirements for the use of specified funds
   26         by the department; requiring a county proposing the
   27         use of funds for an innovative mobility system to
   28         submit a request to the department, subject to certain
   29         requirements; authorizing the submission of joint
   30         proposals by two or more counties; requiring local or
   31         private matching funds for certain distributions,
   32         subject to certain requirements; prohibiting certain
   33         funds distributed from being used to subsidize
   34         projects with existing funding commitments as of a
   35         specified date; requiring each recipient of funds
   36         under the program to submit a quarterly report to the
   37         department regarding the development, implementation,
   38         and operation of the project; requiring the department
   39         to submit to the Legislature an annual report on the
   40         overall status of the program, by a specified date;
   41         providing for the future repeal of s. 341.303(5),
   42         F.S., relating to fund participation and the Florida
   43         Rail Enterprise; amending s. 343.58, F.S.; conforming
   44         a provision to changes made by the act; providing
   45         effective dates.
   46          
   47  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   48  
   49         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
   50  201.15, Florida Statutes, is amended, and paragraph (b) of that
   51  subsection is republished, to read:
   52         201.15 Distribution of taxes collected.—All taxes collected
   53  under this chapter are hereby pledged and shall be first made
   54  available to make payments when due on bonds issued pursuant to
   55  s. 215.618 or s. 215.619, or any other bonds authorized to be
   56  issued on a parity basis with such bonds. Such pledge and
   57  availability for the payment of these bonds shall have priority
   58  over any requirement for the payment of service charges or costs
   59  of collection and enforcement under this section. All taxes
   60  collected under this chapter, except taxes distributed to the
   61  Land Acquisition Trust Fund pursuant to subsections (1) and (2),
   62  are subject to the service charge imposed in s. 215.20(1).
   63  Before distribution pursuant to this section, the Department of
   64  Revenue shall deduct amounts necessary to pay the costs of the
   65  collection and enforcement of the tax levied by this chapter.
   66  The costs and service charge may not be levied against any
   67  portion of taxes pledged to debt service on bonds to the extent
   68  that the costs and service charge are required to pay any
   69  amounts relating to the bonds. All of the costs of the
   70  collection and enforcement of the tax levied by this chapter and
   71  the service charge shall be available and transferred to the
   72  extent necessary to pay debt service and any other amounts
   73  payable with respect to bonds authorized before January 1, 2017,
   74  secured by revenues distributed pursuant to this section. All
   75  taxes remaining after deduction of costs shall be distributed as
   76  follows:
   77         (4) After the required distributions to the Land
   78  Acquisition Trust Fund pursuant to subsections (1) and (2) and
   79  deduction of the service charge imposed pursuant to s.
   80  215.20(1), the remainder shall be distributed as follows:
   81         (a) The lesser of 24.18442 percent of the remainder or
   82  $541.75 million in each fiscal year shall be paid into the State
   83  Treasury to the credit of the State Transportation Trust Fund.
   84  Of such funds, $75 million for each fiscal year shall be
   85  transferred to the General Revenue Fund. Notwithstanding any
   86  other law, the remaining amount credited to the State
   87  Transportation Trust Fund shall be used for:
   88         1. Capital funding for the New Starts Transit Program,
   89  authorized by Title 49, U.S.C. s. 5309 and specified in s.
   90  341.051, in the amount of 10 percent of the funds;
   91         2. The Small County Outreach Program specified in s.
   92  339.2818, in the amount of 10 percent of the funds;
   93         3. The Strategic Intermodal System specified in ss. 339.61,
   94  339.62, 339.63, and 339.64, in the amount of 75 percent of the
   95  funds after deduction of the payments required pursuant to
   96  subparagraphs 1. and 2.; and
   97         4.a. The Transportation Regional Incentive Program
   98  specified in s. 339.2819, in the amount of 25 percent of the
   99  funds after deduction of the payments required pursuant to
  100  subparagraphs 1. and 2.
  101         b.In fiscal years 2018-2019, 2019-2020, and 2020-2021 the
  102  first $60 million of the funds allocated pursuant to this
  103  subparagraph must shall be allocated annually to the Florida
  104  Rail Enterprise for the purposes established in s. 341.303(5).
  105  This sub-subparagraph expires July 1, 2021.
  106         c. Beginning in the 2021-2022 fiscal year, the first $60
  107  million of the funds allocated pursuant to this subparagraph
  108  must be allocated annually as follows:
  109         (I)Twenty-five million dollars on a matching basis to the
  110  Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Authority for the design and
  111  construction of an innovative mobility system, as defined in s.
  112  339.84. One dollar in local or private matching funds must be
  113  provided for each dollar distributed under this sub-sub
  114  subparagraph. Federal funds may not be substituted for the local
  115  or private matching funds. In any fiscal year in which the Tampa
  116  Bay Area Regional Transit Authority notifies the Department of
  117  Transportation that the authority will not request all of the
  118  funds allocated under this subparagraph for an innovative
  119  mobility system, the Department of Transportation shall allocate
  120  such funds to projects in the 5-year work program under s.
  121  339.135 in the area described in s. 343.91(1)(a) and such funds
  122  shall be in addition to currently scheduled work program
  123  commitments in that area.
  124         (II)Thirty-five million dollars to the Statewide Mobility
  125  Innovation Program for the purposes established in s. 339.84.
  126         (b) The lesser of 0.1456 percent of the remainder or $3.25
  127  million in each fiscal year shall be paid into the State
  128  Treasury to the credit of the Grants and Donations Trust Fund in
  129  the Department of Economic Opportunity to fund technical
  130  assistance to local governments.
  131  
  132  Moneys distributed pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (b) may not be
  133  pledged for debt service unless such pledge is approved by
  134  referendum of the voters.
  135         Section 2. Section 339.84, Florida Statutes, is created to
  136  read:
  137         339.84Statewide Mobility Innovation Program.—
  138         (1)As used in this section the term “innovative mobility
  139  system” means a system of infrastructure, appurtenances, and
  140  technology designed to move the greatest number of people in the
  141  least amount of time. The term includes, but is not limited to,
  142  autonomous vehicles as defined in s. 316.003, automated people
  143  movers, bus rapid transit networks, and transportation network
  144  companies as defined in s. 627.748. The term does not include
  145  other traditional uses of a roadway system for conveyance.
  146         (2)The Statewide Mobility Innovation Program is created
  147  within the department. The goals of the program include, but are
  148  not limited to:
  149         (a)Evaluating, financing, and overseeing proposals for
  150  innovative mobility systems in this state.
  151         (b)Expending funds to publicize and promote innovative
  152  mobility systems and to contract with entities to accomplish
  153  these purposes.
  154         (c)Soliciting proposals in accordance with chapter 287 for
  155  the design and construction of innovative mobility systems and
  156  contracting with entities to expend funds to accomplish this
  157  purpose.
  158         (3)Beginning in the 2021-2022 fiscal year, the department
  159  shall use funds allocated pursuant to s. 201.15(4)(a)4.c.(II) in
  160  a county to fund the design and construction of an innovative
  161  mobility system based on a proposal that a county submits to the
  162  department which the department approves as being consistent
  163  with the requirements of this section.
  164         (4) Of the $35 million allocated under s.
  165  201.15(4)(a)4.c.(II), the department must use:
  166         (a) Twenty-five million dollars for an innovative mobility
  167  system in a county as defined in s. 125.011(1). In any fiscal
  168  year in which a county as defined in s. 125.011(1) notifies the
  169  department that the county will not request all of the funds
  170  allocated under this paragraph for an innovative mobility
  171  system, the department shall allocate such funds to projects in
  172  the 5-year work program under s. 339.135 in the county as
  173  defined in s. 125.011(1) and such funds shall be in addition to
  174  currently scheduled work program commitments in that area.
  175         (b) The remainder for such a system in any other county or
  176  counties in the state.
  177         (5)A county proposing the use of funds for an innovative
  178  mobility system must submit a request to the department which
  179  must include a detailed project and financial plan. The funding
  180  request must specify the duration of the project and the total
  181  amount sought by state fiscal year. Two or more counties may
  182  submit a joint proposal to the department.
  183         (6)One dollar in local or private matching funds must be
  184  provided for each dollar distributed under this section. Federal
  185  funds may not be substituted for the local or private matching
  186  funds.
  187         (7)Funds distributed under this section may not be used to
  188  subsidize projects with existing funding commitments as of July
  189  1, 2018.
  190         (8)Each recipient of funds under this program must submit
  191  a quarterly report to the department regarding the development,
  192  implementation, and operation of the project. The department
  193  must submit an annual report by September 1 to the President of
  194  the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives
  195  regarding the overall status of the program.
  196         Section 3. Effective July 1, 2021, subsection (5) of
  197  section 341.303, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
  198         Section 4. Effective July 1, 2021, paragraph (b) of
  199  subsection (4) of section 343.58, Florida Statutes, is amended
  200  to read:
  201         343.58 County funding for the South Florida Regional
  202  Transportation Authority.—
  203         (4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
  204  contrary and effective July 1, 2010, until as provided in
  205  paragraph (d), the department shall transfer annually from the
  206  State Transportation Trust Fund to the South Florida Regional
  207  Transportation Authority the amounts specified in subparagraph
  208  (a)1. or subparagraph (a)2.
  209         (b) Funding required by this subsection may not be provided
  210  from the funds dedicated to the Florida Rail Enterprise or the
  211  Statewide Mobility Innovation Program pursuant to s.
  212  201.15(4)(a)4.
  213         Section 5. Except as otherwise provided, this act shall
  214  take effect July 1, 2018.