The Florida Senate

¹311.22  Additional authorization for funding certain dredging projects.--

(1)  The Florida Seaport Transportation and Economic Development Council shall establish a program to fund dredging projects in counties having a population of fewer than 300,000 according to the last official census. Funds made available under this program ²may be used to fund approved projects for the dredging or deepening of channels, turning basins, or harbors on a 50-50 matching basis with any port authority, as such term is defined in s. 315.02(2), which complies with the ³permitting requirements in part IV of chapter 373 and the local financial management and reporting provisions of part III of chapter 218.

⁴(2)  The council shall adopt rules for evaluating the projects that may be funded pursuant to this section. The rules must provide criteria for evaluating the economic benefit of the project. The rules must include the creation of an administrative review process by the council which is similar to the process ⁵described in s. 311.09(5)-(12), and provide for a review by the Department of Community Affairs, the Department of Transportation, and the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development of all projects submitted for funding under this section.

History.--ss. 42, 55, ch. 2005-71; s. 1, ch. 2005-261; s. 1, ch. 2005-281.

¹Note.--

A.  Section 42, ch. 2005-71, created s. 311.22 "[i]n order to implement Specific Appropriation 1995 of the 2005-2006 General Appropriations Act."

B.  Section 55, ch. 2005-71, provides that "[i]f any other act passed in 2005 contains a provision that is substantively the same as a provision in this act, but that removes or is otherwise not subject to the future repeal applied to such provision by this act, the Legislature intends that the provision in the other act shall take precedence and shall continue to operate, notwithstanding the future repeal provided by this act." Section 1, chapter 2005-281, also enacted s. 311.22, and s. 1, ch. 2005-261, enacted substantially similar material at s. 311.115, redesignated as s. 311.22 by the reviser. The enactment of this material by s. 1, ch. 2005-261, and s. 1, ch. 2005-281, did not include a repeal provision.

²Note.--As enacted by s. 1, ch. 2005-281, and s. 42, ch. 2005-71. The s. 1, ch. 2005-261, version used the word "shall" instead of the word "may."

³Note.--As enacted by s. 1, ch. 2005-281, and s. 1, ch. 2005-261. The s. 42, ch. 2005-71, version references "water quality provisions of s. 403.061" instead of "permitting requirements in part IV of chapter 373."

⁴Note.--As enacted by s. 1, ch. 2005-281, and s. 42, ch. 2005-71. For a description of multiple acts in the same session affecting a statutory provision, see preface to the Florida Statutes, "Statutory Construction." Subsection (2) was also enacted by s. 1, ch. 2005-261, and that version reads:

(2)  The council shall adopt rules for evaluating projects submitted for funding pursuant to this section and establish criteria for evaluating the economic benefit of such projects. The rules shall also establish and require an administrative review process similar to the process contained in s. 311.09(5)-(9) for projects approved for funding pursuant to this section to be reviewed by the Department of Community Affairs, the Department of Transportation, and the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development.

⁵Note.--As enacted by s. 1, ch. 2005-281. The s. 42, ch. 2005-71, version uses the word "contained" instead of "described."