Florida Senate - 2024 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for CS for SB 266
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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The Committee on Appropriations (Hooper) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Substitute for Amendment (647196) (with title
2 amendment)
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4 Between lines 651 and 652
5 insert:
6 Section 8. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
7 338.26, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
8 338.26 Alligator Alley toll road.—
9 (3)(a) Fees generated from tolls shall be deposited in the
10 State Transportation Trust Fund and shall be used:
11 1. To reimburse outstanding contractual obligations;
12 2. To operate and maintain the highway and toll facilities,
13 including reconstruction and restoration;
14 3. To pay for those projects that are funded with Alligator
15 Alley toll revenues and that are contained in the 1993-1994
16 adopted work program or the 1994-1995 tentative work program
17 submitted to the Legislature on February 22, 1994; and
18 4. By interlocal agreement effective July 1, 2019, through
19 no later than June 30, 2027, to reimburse a local governmental
20 entity for the direct actual costs of operating the fire station
21 at mile marker 63 on Alligator Alley, which shall be used by the
22 local governmental entity to provide fire, rescue, and emergency
23 management services exclusively to the public on Alligator
24 Alley. The local governmental entity must contribute 10 percent
25 of the direct actual operating costs.
26 a. The interlocal agreement effective July 1, 2019, through
27 June 30, 2027, shall control until such time that the local
28 governmental entity and the department enter into a new
29 agreement or agree to extend the existing agreement. For the
30 2024-2025 fiscal year, the amount of reimbursement shall be $2
31 million.
32 b. Beginning no later than April 30, 2025, and every 5
33 years thereafter, the local governmental entity must provide a
34 maintenance and operations comprehensive plan to the department.
35 The comprehensive plan must include a current inventory of
36 assets, including their projected service life, and area service
37 needs; the call and response history for emergency services
38 provided in the preceding 5 years on Alligator Alley, including
39 costs; and future projections for assets and equipment,
40 including replacement or purchase needs, and operating costs.
41 c. The local government entity and the department shall
42 review and adopt the comprehensive plan as part of the
43 interlocal agreement.
44 d. In concurrence with projected incoming toll revenues for
45 Alligator Alley, the department shall include the corresponding
46 funding needs of the comprehensive plan into the department’s
47 work program The amount of reimbursement to the local
48 governmental entity may not exceed $1.4 million in any state
49 fiscal year.
50 e. At the end of the term of the interlocal agreement, the
51 ownership and title of all fire, rescue, and emergency equipment
52 purchased with state funds and used at the fire station during
53 the term of the interlocal agreement transfers to the state.
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56 And the title is amended as follows:
57 Delete line 63
58 and insert:
59 and entities; amending s. 338.26, F.S.; revising the
60 date by which fees generated from tolls deposited into
61 the State Transportation Trust Fund must be used to
62 reimburse a local government entity for certain costs
63 of operating a specified fire station; requiring that
64 the interlocal agreement which authorizes such
65 reimbursement to control for a specified time until
66 the local governmental entity and the department enter
67 into a new agreement or agree to extend the agreement;
68 specifying the amount of reimbursement for the 2024
69 2025 fiscal year; requiring the local governmental
70 entity, by a specified date and at specified intervals
71 thereafter, to provide a maintenance and operations
72 comprehensive plan to the department, which includes a
73 current inventory of assets; requiring the local
74 government entity and the department to review and
75 adopt the comprehensive plan as part of the interlocal
76 agreement; requiring the department to program
77 corresponding funding needs into the department’s work
78 program; requiring that ownership and title of certain
79 equipment purchased with state funds and used at the
80 fire station during the term of the interlocal
81 agreement transfer to the state at the end of the term
82 of the agreement; creating s. 339.2820, F.S.; creating