SB 62 — Regional Planning Councils

Florida Senate - 2021 CS for SB 62 By Senatorthe BradleyCommittee 5-00364C-21on 202162__Community AAffairs; bill to be entitled An act relating to regional planning councils;

and Senator Bradley 578-01357-21 202162c1 A bill to be entitled An act relating to regional planning councils;

requiring the Division of Emergency Management to give funding priority to certain projects in counties, rather than regional planning council regions, as such regions existed on January 1, 2021, that meet specified criteria;

revising the requirements for the statewide emergency shelter plan to include the general location and square footage of special needs shelters by countyregional ratherplanning thancouncil byregion, regionalas planningsuch councilregions region;existed on January 1, 2021;

requiring state funds to be maximized and targeted to countiesregional withplanning hurricanecouncil evacuationregions, shelteras deficitssuch ratherregions thanexisted regionalon planningJanuary council1, regions;2021;

providing that if a countyregional planning council region, as such region existed on January 1, 2021, does not have a hurricane evacuation shelter deficit, educational facilities within the countyregion are not required to incorporate the public shelter criteria;

requiring the Divisionstatewide ofemergency Emergencyshelter Managementplan to identify the general location and square footage of existing and needed shelters by countyregional ratherplanning thancouncil byregion, regionalas planningsuch councilregions region;existed on January 1, 2021;

requiring public hurricane evacuation shelters in certain counties rather than in regional planning council regions, as such regions existed on January 1, 2021, to be constructed in accordance with public shelter standards;

104106 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

106108 Section 1. Subsections (7) and (8) of section 186.007, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

The division must give funding priority to projects in counties regional planning council regions, as such regions existed on January 1, 2021, that have shelter deficits and to projects that maximize the use of state funds.

The plan shall identify the general location and square footage of special needs shelters, by county regional planning council region, as such regions existed on January 1, 2021, during the next 5 years.

State funds should be maximized and targeted to counties regional planning council regions, as such regions existed on January 1, 2021, with hurricane evacuation shelter deficits.

If the county regional planning council region in which the county is locatedlocated, as such region existed on January 1, 2021, does not have a hurricane evacuation shelter deficit, as determined by the Division of Emergency Management, educational facilities within the county planning council region are not required to incorporate the public shelter criteria.

The plan must identify the general location and square footage of existing shelters, by county regional planning council region, as such regions existed on January 1, 2021, and the general location and square footage of needed shelters, by county regional planning council region, as such regions existed on January 1, 2021, during the next 5 years.

Until a county regional planning council region, as such region existed on January 1, 2021, in which a campus is located has sufficient public hurricane evacuation shelter space, any campus building for which a design contract is entered into subsequent to July 1, 2001, and which has been identified by the board, with the concurrence of the local emergency management agency or the Division of Emergency Management, to be appropriate for use as a public hurricane evacuation shelter, must be constructed in accordance with public shelter standards.

505511 This definition does not include a municipality or legal entity created solely by a municipality;

990996 Those eligible to represent the trail user community shall be chosen from, but not be limited to, paved trail users, hikers, off-road bicyclists, users of off-highway vehicles, paddlers, equestrians, disabled outdoor recreational users, and commercial recreational interests.

10581064 An alternate for each designee shall also be chosen, and the names of the designees and alternates shall be sent to the executive director of the department.

Section 36. Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section 335.188, Florida Statutes, as amended by section 91 of chapter 2020-114, Laws of Florida, is amended to read:

Section 37. Upon37. Paragraph the(c) expirationof andsubsection reversion(3) of the amendments made to section 338.2278, Florida Statutes, pursuantas toamended by section 91 of chapter 2020-114, Laws of Florida, paragraph (c) of subsection (3) of section 338.2278, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

14931496 All fees and funds collected by each delegated entity pursuant to this part shall be deposited in the appropriate operating account of that entity.

23072310 In addition, the rules may establish permitting thresholds, permitting exemptions, or general permits, if such thresholds, exemptions, or general permits do not allow significant adverse impacts to the Wekiva River System to occur individually or cumulatively.