Bill Text: FL S0404 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Strategic Fuel Reserve

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2019-05-03 - Died in Rules [S0404 Detail]

Download: Florida-2019-S0404-Introduced.html

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       Florida Senate - 2019                                     SB 404
       
       
        
       By Senator Farmer
       
       
       
       
       
       34-00718-19                                            2019404__
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to a strategic fuel reserve; creating
    3         the Florida Strategic Fuel Reserve Task Force within
    4         the Division of Emergency Management to develop a
    5         recommended strategic fuel reserve plan for an
    6         emergency or disaster; requiring the division to
    7         provide administrative and support services to the
    8         task force; specifying the membership of the task
    9         force; requiring the task force to elect a chair and a
   10         vice chair; requiring the task force to submit a
   11         recommended plan to the Governor and the Legislature
   12         by a specified date; providing an expiration date;
   13         providing an effective date.
   14          
   15  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   17         Section 1. (1) The Florida Strategic Fuel Reserve Task
   18  Force, a task force as defined in s. 20.03(8), Florida Statutes,
   19  is created within the Division of Emergency Management within
   20  the Executive Office of the Governor to develop a recommended
   21  strategic fuel reserve plan for the state to respond to private
   22  and public fuel needs in the event of an emergency or disaster,
   23  as those terms are defined in s. 252.34, Florida Statutes.
   24         (2) The division shall provide administrative and support
   25  services relating to the functions of the task force.
   26         (3) The task force shall consist of the following members:
   27         (a) Three persons appointed by the President of the Senate.
   28         (b) Three persons appointed by the Speaker of the House of
   29  Representatives.
   30         (c) Three persons appointed by the Governor.
   31         (4) The task force shall elect a chair and vice chair.
   32         (5) The task force shall submit a recommended strategic
   33  fuel reserve plan to the Governor, the President of the Senate,
   34  and the Speaker of the House of Representatives by April 30,
   35  2020.
   36         (6) This section expires on June 30, 2020.
   37         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.