Bill Text: FL S1080 | 2013 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: Public Construction Projects

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2013-05-03 - Died in Appropriations, companion bill(s) passed, see CS/CS/HB 269 (Ch. 2013-193) [S1080 Detail]

Download: Florida-2013-S1080-Comm_Sub.html

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       Florida Senate - 2013                             CS for SB 1080
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability;
       and Senator Evers
       
       
       
       585-04017-13                                          20131080c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to public construction projects;
    3         amending ss. 255.20 and 255.2575, F.S.; requiring
    4         governmental entities to specify certain products
    5         associated with public works projects; providing for
    6         applicability; amending s. 255.257, F.S.; requiring
    7         state agencies to use certain building rating systems
    8         and building codes for each new construction and
    9         renovation project; providing an effective date.
   10  
   11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   13         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 255.20, Florida
   14  Statutes, is amended to read:
   15         255.20 Local bids and contracts for public construction
   16  works; specification of state-produced lumber.—
   17         (3)(a) All county officials, boards of county
   18  commissioners, school boards, city councils, city commissioners,
   19  and all other public officers of state boards or commissions
   20  that are charged with the letting of contracts for public work,
   21  for the construction of public bridges, buildings, and other
   22  structures must specify in the contract lumber, timber, and
   23  other forest products produced and manufactured in this state,
   24  if wood is a component of the public work, and if such products
   25  are available and their price, fitness, and quality are equal.
   26         (b) This subsection does not apply:
   27         1. To plywood specified for monolithic concrete forms.,
   28         2. If the structural or service requirements for timber for
   29  a particular job cannot be supplied by native species., or
   30         3. If the construction is financed in whole or in part from
   31  federal funds with the requirement that there be no restrictions
   32  as to species or place of manufacture.
   33         4. To transportation projects for which federal aid funds
   34  are available.
   35         Section 2. Subsection (4) is added to section 255.2575,
   36  Florida Statutes, to read:
   37         255.2575 Energy-efficient and sustainable buildings.—
   38         (4)(a) All state agencies, county officials, boards of
   39  county commissioners, school boards, city councils, city
   40  commissioners, and all other public officers of state boards or
   41  commissions that are charged with the letting of contracts for
   42  public work, for the construction of public bridges, buildings,
   43  and other structures must specify in the contract lumber,
   44  timber, and other forest products produced and manufactured in
   45  this state, if wood is a component of the public work, and if
   46  such products are available and their price, fitness, and
   47  quality are equal.
   48         (b) This subsection does not apply:
   49         1. To plywood specified for monolithic concrete forms.
   50         2. If the structural or service requirements for timber for
   51  a particular job cannot be supplied by native species.
   52         3. If the construction is financed in whole or in part from
   53  federal funds with the requirement that there be no restrictions
   54  as to species or place of manufacture.
   55         4. To transportation projects for which federal aid funds
   56  are available.
   57         Section 3. Paragraph (a) of subsection (4) of section
   58  255.257, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   59         255.257 Energy management; buildings occupied by state
   60  agencies.—
   61         (4) ADOPTION OF STANDARDS.—
   62         (a) Each All state agency agencies shall use adopt a
   63  sustainable building rating system or use a national model green
   64  building code for each all new building buildings and renovation
   65  renovations to an existing building buildings.
   66         Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2013.