Florida Senate - 2026                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1362
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       The Committee on Transportation (Harrell) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 39 - 119
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 2. Paragraph (i) of subsection (1) of section
    6  255.065, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         255.065 Public-private partnerships.—
    8         (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this section, the term:
    9         (i) “Qualifying project” means:
   10         1. A facility or project that serves a public purpose,
   11  including, but not limited to, any ferry or mass transit
   12  facility, vehicle parking facility, airport or seaport facility,
   13  rail facility or project, fuel supply facility, oil or gas
   14  pipeline, medical or nursing care facility, recreational
   15  facility, sporting or cultural facility, or educational facility
   16  or other building or facility that is used or will be used by a
   17  public educational institution, or any other public facility or
   18  infrastructure that is used or will be used by the public at
   19  large or in support of an accepted public purpose or activity;
   20         2. An improvement, including equipment, of a building that
   21  will be principally used by a public entity or the public at
   22  large or that supports a service delivery system in the public
   23  sector;
   24         3. A water, wastewater, or surface water management
   25  facility or other related infrastructure; or
   26         4. Notwithstanding any provision of this section, for
   27  projects that involve a facility owned or operated by the
   28  governing board of a county, district, or municipal hospital or
   29  health care system, or projects that involve a facility owned or
   30  operated by a municipal electric utility, only those projects
   31  that the governing board designates as qualifying projects
   32  pursuant to this section; or
   33         5. Vertiports and charging systems.
   34         Section 3. Section 330.412, Florida Statutes, is created to
   35  read:
   36         330.412 Limitation of liability for certain public
   37  vertiport operators.—
   38         (1) For purposes of this section, the term “vertiport” has
   39  the same meaning as in s. 332.151(1).
   40         (2) For vertiports that are colocated with a public
   41  airport, the vertiport operator shall be considered an agency or
   42  subdivision of this state for purposes of s. 768.28 and is
   43  entitled to sovereign immunity to the same extent as a public
   44  airport operator.
   45         (3) This section expires July 1, 2036, unless reviewed and
   46  saved from repeal through reenactment by the Legislature.
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   49  And the title is amended as follows:
   50         Delete lines 3 - 13
   51  and insert:
   52         short title; amending s. 255.065, F.S.; revising the
   53         definition of the term “qualifying project”; creating
   54         s. 330.412, F.S.; defining the term “vertiport”;
   55         providing that certain vertiport operators are
   56         considered an agency or subdivision of this state for
   57         certain purposes and are entitled to sovereign
   58         immunity to a specified extent; providing for future
   59         legislative review and repeal; amending s. 332.007,
   60         F.S.; revising the