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General Bill by Diaz de la Portilla
Public-private Partnerships: Providing legislative findings and intent relating to the construction or improvement by private entities of facilities used predominantly for a public purpose; providing for notice to affected local jurisdictions; providing for comprehensive agreements between a public and a private entity; providing for financing sources for certain projects by a private entity; providing for the applicability of sovereign immunity for public entities with respect to qualified projects, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
General Bill by Steube
Public-Private Partnerships: Provides legislative findings & intent relating to construction or improvement by private entities of facilities used predominantly for public purposes; provides for procurement procedures, requirements for project approval, project qualifications & process, notice to affected local jurisdictions, comprehensive agreements between public & private entities, use fees, financing sources for certain projects by private entities, & applicability of sovereign immunity for public entities with respect to qualified projects.
Effective Date: July 1, 2013
General Bill by Van Zant
Public Works Projects: Prohibits state & political subdivisions that contract for construction, maintenance, repair, or improvement of public works from imposing certain conditions on certain contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, or carriers; provides exception; prohibits state & political subdivisions from restricting qualified bidders from submitting bids, being awarded any bid or contract, or performing work on public works project; revises filing requirements for written protests to contract solicitations or awards.
Effective Date: upon becoming a law
General Bill by Flores
Public-private Partnerships: Providing legislative findings and intent relating to the construction or upgrade of facilities by private entities which are used predominately for a public purpose; requiring public entities to develop and adopt guidelines governing procedures and criteria for the selection of projects and public-private agreements; providing for financing from private sources and public entities; providing for the applicability of sovereign immunity for public entities with respect to qualified projects, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
General Bill by Negron
Design Professionals: Providing that certain contracts executed by a business entity may specify that certain architects, interior designers, landscape architects, engineers, and surveyors may not be held individually liable for negligence in the performance of professional services provided under those contracts; specifying that a contract that prohibits individual liability must meet certain requirements, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
General Bill by Passidomo
Design Professionals: Defines "business entity"; provides that certain contracts executed by professional services corporation may specify that certain architects, interior designers, landscape architects, engineers, & surveyors may not be held individually liable for negligence in performance of professional services provided under those contracts; specifies that contract that prohibits individual liability must meet certain requirements.
Effective Date: July 1, 2013
General Bill by Clemens
Public Construction Projects: Requiring state agencies to specify certain products associated with public works projects; prohibiting state agencies from excluding the use of certain building rating systems, building codes, or published supplements for certain construction and renovation projects, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
General Bill by Hukill
Local Bids and Contracts for Public Construction Works: Eliminating specified conditions under which a local government is exempt from the requirement to competitively award contracts, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
General Bill by Hays
Preference in Award of State Contracts: Expanding provisions that require an agency, university, college, school district, or other political subdivision of the state to provide preferential consideration to a Florida business in awarding competitively bid contracts to purchase personal property to include the purchase of construction services; requiring counties and municipalities to provide such preferential consideration; providing that for specified competitive solicitations the authority to grant preference supersedes any local ordinance or regulation that restricts specified contractors from competing for an award based upon certain conditions, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
General Bill by McBurney (CO-SPONSORS) Van Zant
Local Bids and Contracts for Public Construction Works: Eliminates specified conditions under which local government is exempt from requirement to competitively award contracts.
Effective Date: July 1, 2013
General Bill by Metz
Procurement of Professional Architectural, Engineering, Landscape Architectural, or Surveying and Mapping Services: Revises definition of term "continuing contract," & defines term "best value selection"; clarifies provisions with respect to selection of firms by agency under competitive selection process; provides that agency has right to reject any or all submissions received in response to public announcement under competitive selection process; authorizes agency to award contracts to multiple firms under competitive negotiation process; provides for best value selection process; requires agencies to adopt rules governing use of such process; provides minimum requirements with respect to best value selection procedures.
Effective Date: July 1, 2013
General Bill by Rogers
Small Business Participation in State Contracting: Directs that agencies avoid contract bundling under certain circumstances; requires agencies to conduct market research & include written summaries & analyses of such research in solicitations for bundled contracts; requires agencies to award a specified percentage of contracts to small businesses; requires contract vendors to use small businesses in the state as subcontractors or subvendors; provides requirements with respect to payment of subcontractors; prohibits agencies, general contractors, or prime contractors from requiring certain bonds or other sureties for certain contracts; requires the rules ombudsman in the EOG to establish a system for reporting small business participation in state contracting; requiring agencies to cooperate with such reporting; requires specified annual reports.
Effective Date: July 1, 2013
General Bill by Soto
Procurement of Professional Architectural, Engineering, Landscape Architectural, or Surveying and Mapping Services: Revising the definition of the term “continuing contract” and defining the term “best value selection”; clarifying provisions with respect to selection of firms by an agency under the competitive selection process; providing that an agency has the right to reject any or all submissions received in response to a public announcement under the competitive selection process; authorizing an agency to award contracts to multiple firms under the competitive negotiation process, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
General Bill by Hays
State-owned or State-leased Space: Revising provisions relating to the update of an inventory of certain facilities needing repairs or innovation maintained by the Department of Management Services; revising provisions relating to decisions by the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to surplus lands; prohibiting a state agency from leasing space in a private building under certain circumstances; specifying that a vendor for certain energy efficiency contracts must be selected in accordance with state procurement requirements, etc.
Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, this act shall take effect July 1, 2013.
General Bill by Evers
Public Construction Projects: Requiring state agencies to use a sustainable building rating system for construction and renovation projects; requiring state agencies and other entities to specify certain products associated with public works projects, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
General Bill by Hays
Public Contracting: Prohibiting a governmental unit that contracts for the construction, repair, remodeling, or improving of a facility from imposing conditions that requires, prohibits, encourages, or discourages certain bidders, contractors, or subcontractors from entering into or adhering to agreements with a collective bargaining organization; prohibiting certain terms from being placed in bid specifications, project agreements, or other controlling documents; revising the period during which an agency must file a protest following certain contract solicitations or awards, etc.
Effective Date: Upon becoming a law.
General Bill by Gibson
Small Business Participation in State Contracting: Defining the terms “contract bundling” and “small business”; directing that agencies avoid contract bundling under certain circumstances; requiring agencies to conduct market research and include written summaries and analyses of such research in solicitations for bundled contracts; requiring agencies to award a specified percentage of contracts to small businesses; prohibiting agencies, general contractors, or prime contractors from requiring certain bonds or other sureties for certain contracts, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
General Bill by La Rosa
State-Owned or State-Leased Space: Revises provisions relating to inventory of state-owned facilities; clarifies that deeds may be signed by agents of Board of Trustees of Internal Improvement Trust Fund; revises provisions relating to decisions by board to surplus lands; revises responsibilities of DMS with respect to state-owned buildings; authorizes state agencies to use services of tenant broker to provide certain information; reduces amount of square feet which agency may lease without department approval; requires all state-owned facilities to report energy consumption and cost data.
Effective Date: July 1, 2013
General Bill by Governmental Oversight and Accountability and Benacquisto and Brandes
State Contracting: Requiring agreements funded with state or federal financial assistance to include additional provisions; revising provisions relating to the Chief Financial Officer’s intergovernmental contract tracking system under the Transparency Florida Act; repealing provisions relating to a requirement that state agencies report certain contract information to the Department of Financial Services and transferring that requirement to s. 215.985, F.S., etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
Memorial by Eagle (CO-SPONSORS) Caldwell; Gaetz; Rodrigues, R.
United Nations' Agenda 21: Endorses rejection of UN's Agenda 21 & its underlying harmful policies & urges Congress to reject effort to implement Agenda 21 or such policies in U.S.
Effective Date: Not Specified
General Bill by Davis
Building Construction: Revises provisions relating to onsite sewage treatment & disposal systems, construction contracting & electrical alarm system contracting disciplinary actions, Florida Building Code, thermal efficiency standards, & building energy-efficiency rating system.
Effective Date: July 1, 2013
General Bill by Simpson
Building Construction: Specifying that certain actions relating to onsite sewage treatment and removal are not required if a bedroom is not added during a remodeling addition or modification to a single-family home; authorizing a local building department to retain 75 percent of certain fines collected if it transmits 25 percent to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; prohibiting any provision of the International Residential Code relating to mandated fire sprinklers from incorporation into the Florida Building Code, etc.
Effective Date: 07/01/2013
General Bill by Diaz, J.
State Contracting: Requires agreements funded with state or federal financial assistance to include additional provisions; authorizes CFO to audit & approve agreements prior to execution; revises provisions relating to CFO's intergovernmental contract tracking system under Transparency Florida Act; requires state agencies to post certain information in tracking system & update that information; requires certain contract managers to be certified & directs DMS to be responsible for establishing requirements for certification; requires CFO to perform audits of executed contract documents & discuss audits with agency officials; requires agency head to respond to the audit.
Effective Date: July 1, 2013
General Bill by Government Operations Subcommittee and Albritton
Procurement of Commodities and Contractual Services: Provides additional information that must be included in an agency agreement that provides state financial assistance to a recipient or subrecipient; requires the CFO to establish and maintain secure contract tracking system; revises powers, duties, & functions of DMS; revises exceptions to requirement that purchase of specified commodities or contractual services be made only as result of receiving competitive sealed bids, competitive sealed proposals, or competitive sealed replies; revising contractual services & commodities that are not subject to competitive solicitation requirements by virtue of being available only from a single source; provides that a contract for commodities or contractual services may be awarded without competition if the recipient of funds is established during the appropriations process; revises nonapplicability of a business case to outsource; requires the CFO to perform audits of executed contracts.
Effective Date: July 1, 2013
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