Bill Text: FL S1646 | 2023 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Commercial Service Airport Transparency and Accountability

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-02 - Laid on Table, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 1123 (Ch. 2023-187) [S1646 Detail]

Download: Florida-2023-S1646-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2023                             CS for SB 1646
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Transportation; and Senator Davis
       
       
       
       
       
       596-03507-23                                          20231646c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to commercial service airport
    3         transparency and accountability; amending s. 332.0075,
    4         F.S.; defining the term “consent agenda”; revising
    5         information required to be posted on the website of a
    6         governing body; requiring a commercial service airport
    7         to use specified competitive solicitation processes
    8         for certain purchases of commodities or contractual
    9         services; requiring a governing body to approve,
   10         award, or ratify certain contracts by separate line
   11         item on the agenda if such contracts exceed specified
   12         amounts; prohibiting such contracts from being
   13         approved, awarded, or ratified as part of a consent
   14         agenda; providing an effective date.
   15          
   16  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   18         Section 1. Present paragraphs (b) and (c) of subsection (1)
   19  of section 332.0075, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
   20  paragraphs (c) and (d), respectively, a new paragraph (b) is
   21  added to that subsection, and paragraphs (d) and (f) of
   22  subsection (2) and subsection (3) of that section are amended,
   23  to read:
   24         332.0075 Commercial service airports; transparency and
   25  accountability; penalty.—
   26         (1) As used in this section, the term:
   27         (b) “Consent agenda” means an agenda that consists of items
   28  voted on as a group and that does not provide the opportunity
   29  for public comment on each individual item before approval or
   30  disapproval by the governing body.
   31         (2) Each governing body shall establish and maintain a
   32  website to post information relating to the operation of a
   33  commercial service airport, including:
   34         (d) A link to the airport master plan for the commercial
   35  service airport on the commercial service airport’s Federal
   36  Aviation Administration’s website.
   37         (f) Any contract or contract amendment for the purchase of
   38  commodities or contractual services executed by or on behalf of
   39  the commercial service airport in excess of the threshold amount
   40  provided in s. 287.017 for CATEGORY FIVE THREE, which must shall
   41  be posted no later than 7 business days after the commercial
   42  service airport executes the contract or contract amendment.
   43  However, a contract or contract amendment may not reveal
   44  information made confidential or exempt by law. Each commercial
   45  service airport shall must redact confidential or exempt
   46  information from each contract or contract amendment before
   47  posting a copy on its website.
   48         (3)(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the
   49  contrary, commercial service airports shall use competitive
   50  solicitation processes consistent with are subject to the
   51  requirements of s. 287.057 chapter 287 for purchases of
   52  commodities or contractual services which exceed the threshold
   53  amount provided in s. 287.017 for CATEGORY FIVE THREE. If the
   54  purchase of commodities or contractual services exceeds the
   55  threshold amount provided in s. 287.017 for CATEGORY FIVE THREE,
   56  the purchase of commodities or contractual services may not be
   57  made without receiving competitive sealed bids, competitive
   58  sealed proposals, or competitive sealed replies unless an
   59  exception consistent with an exception applies as provided in s.
   60  287.057(3) applies or an immediate danger to the public health,
   61  safety, or welfare or other substantial loss to the commercial
   62  service airport requires emergency action.
   63         (b)1. A governing body must approve, award, or ratify any
   64  contract for commodities or contractual services all contracts
   65  executed by or on behalf of a commercial service airport in
   66  excess of the threshold amount provided in s. 287.017 for
   67  CATEGORY FIVE as a separate line item on the agenda and must
   68  provide a reasonable opportunity for public comment if such
   69  contract is executed by or on behalf of a commercial service
   70  airport classified by the Federal Aviation Administration as a:
   71         a. Small hub airport and the contract amount exceeds
   72  $500,000.
   73         b. Medium hub airport and the contract amount exceeds $1
   74  million.
   75         c. Large hub airport and the contract amount exceeds $1.5
   76  million.
   77         2. A contract that exceeds the amounts specified in
   78  subparagraph 1. for the respective airport hub sizes Such
   79  contracts may not be approved, awarded, or ratified as part of a
   80  consent agenda.
   81         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2023.