Florida SB 1044: Department of Transportation

Bill Text

1044 
Department of Transportation 
2019-02-14T06:54:03Z 
Providing that the Department of Transportation consists of a central office that establishes policies and procedures and districts that carry out certain projects; requiring certain preservation goals to include ensuring that a specified percentage of the pavement in each of the department’s districts meet department standards by a specified year; prohibiting local governments from adopting standards or specifications that are contrary to the department standards or specifications for permissible use of aggregates and materials that have been certified for use, etc. 
Original Filed Version 
2019 
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2019-07-01T00:00:00Z 
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General Bill 
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 Florida Senate - 2019 SB 1044 

 By Senator Albritton 

 26-00565A-19 20191044__ 
 1 A bill to be entitled 
 2 An act relating to the Department of Transportation; 
 3 amending s. 20.23, F.S.; providing that the Department 
 4 of Transportation consists of a central office that 
 5 establishes policies and procedures and districts that 
 6 carry out certain projects; deleting the requirement 
 7 that the Governor appoint the Secretary of 
 8 Transportation from among three persons nominated by 
 9 the Florida Transportation Commission; providing 
 10 additional qualification requirements for the 
 11 secretary; amending s. 112.061, F.S.; requiring that 
 12 certain mileage be computed on the basis of the most 
 13 commonly used maps; amending s. 334.046, F.S.; 
 14 requiring certain preservation goals to include 
 15 ensuring that a specified percentage of the pavement 
 16 in each of the department’s districts meet department 
 17 standards by a specified year; creating s. 334.179, 
 18 F.S.; prohibiting local governments from adopting 
 19 standards or specifications that are contrary to the 
 20 department standards or specifications for permissible 
 21 use of aggregates and materials that have been 
 22 certified for use; defining the term “certified for 
 23 use”; amending s. 337.14, F.S.; requiring any 
 24 contractor, instead of any person, desiring to bid for 
 25 the performance of certain construction contracts to 
 26 first be certified by the department as qualified; 
 27 conforming provisions to changes made by the act; 
 28 requiring a contractor desiring to bid on certain 
 29 contracts to have satisfactorily completed certain 
 30 projects; amending s. 337.18, F.S.; requiring that a 
 31 certain schedule include a reduction of the daily 
 32 liquidated damage charges to certain costs when 
 33 traffic is in its final configuration and the project 
 34 is functional for its intended purpose; amending s. 
 35 337.185, F.S.; revising the maximum amounts per 
 36 contract of certain contractual claims that must be 
 37 arbitrated by the State Arbitration Board under 
 38 certain circumstances; amending s. 338.166, F.S.; 
 39 prohibiting the department from using toll revenue 
 40 from high-occupancy toll lanes or express lanes to 
 41 offset funding that the facilities would use if the 
 42 facilities were not high-occupancy toll lanes or 
 43 express lanes; amending s. 339.135, F.S.; requiring 
 44 the department to allocate a minimum specified 
 45 percentage of all transportation capacity funds, with 
 46 the exception of funds allocated for the transit 
 47 program and the surface transportation program 
 48 attributable to areas with certain populations, to the 
 49 Florida Strategic Intermodal System; amending s. 
 50 339.65, F.S.; requiring that priority for certain 
 51 facility improvements by the department be given to 
 52 correcting or improving certain sections of interstate 
 53 highway; requiring that project development and 
 54 environmental studies for a certain section of 
 55 interstate highway begin within a specified period; 
 56 providing an effective date. 
 57 
 58 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
 59 
 60 Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 20.23, Florida 
 61 Statutes, is amended to read: 
 62 20.23 Department of Transportation.—There is created a 
 63 Department of Transportation which shall be a decentralized 
 64 agency. 
 65 (1)(a) The Department of Transportation shall consist of: 
 66 1. A central office that establishes policies and 
 67 procedures; and 
 68 2. Districts that carry out projects as authorized or 
 69 required under the policies and procedures of the central office 
 70 pursuant to paragraph (3)(a). 
 71 (b) The head of the Department of Transportation is the 
 72 Secretary of Transportation. The secretary is shall be appointed 
 73 by the Governor, from among three persons nominated by the 
 74 Florida Transportation Commission and shall be subject to 
 75 confirmation by the Senate. The secretary shall serve at the 
 76 pleasure of the Governor. 
 77 (c)(b) The secretary must shall be a proven, effective 
 78 administrator who, by a combination of education and experience, 
 79 clearly possesses shall clearly possess a