CRC - 2017                                   COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Proposal No. P 12
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  04/03/2018           .                                
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       The Committee on Style and Drafting (Timmann) recommended the
       following:
       
       
    1         CRC Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the proposal clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 19 of Article X of the State Constitution is
    6  amended to read:
    7                              ARTICLE X                            
    8                            MISCELLANEOUS                          
    9         SECTION 19. Repealed High speed ground transportation
   10  system.—To reduce traffic congestion and provide alternatives to
   11  the traveling public, it is hereby declared to be in the public
   12  interest that a high speed ground transportation system
   13  consisting of a monorail, fixed guideway or magnetic levitation
   14  system, capable of speeds in excess of 120 miles per hour, be
   15  developed and operated in the State of Florida to provide high
   16  speed ground transportation by innovative, efficient and
   17  effective technologies consisting of dedicated rails or
   18  guideways separated from motor vehicular traffic that will link
   19  the five largest urban areas of the State as determined by the
   20  Legislature and provide for access to existing air and ground
   21  transportation facilities and services. The Legislature, the
   22  Cabinet and the Governor are hereby directed to proceed with the
   23  development of such a system by the State and/or by a private
   24  entity pursuant to state approval and authorization, including
   25  the acquisition of right-of-way, the financing of design and
   26  construction of the system, and the operation of the system, as
   27  provided by specific appropriation and by law, with construction
   28  to begin on or before November 1, 2003.
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   30  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete everything before the proposal clause
   33  and insert:
   34                         A proposal to amend                       
   35         Section 19 of Article X of the State Constitution to
   36         delete an obsolete provision regarding the development
   37         of a high speed ground transportation system.