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Florida League of Cities

Commercial Service Airport Transparency and Accountability (Monitor)

CS/CS/HB 1123 (Gossett-Seidman) and CS/SB 1646 (Davis) require commercial service airports to post certain information on their website and modify certain purchasing requirements. The airport must post online the airport’s master plan and any contract or contract amendments for the purchase of commodities or contractual services in excess of category five. The bills also increase the threshold that requires commercial service airports to use a competitive solicitation process from category three to category five. The bills were amended to specify that contract approval must be placed as a separate line item on a meeting agenda for all contracts. The amendment also creates a scaled threshold for this requirement ranging from $500,000-$1.5 million depending on the airport size instead of $4 million as originally filed. CS/CS/HB 1123 passed the House (112-0) and is awaiting action by the Senate. (Taggart)