| 1 | Representative(s) Sobel offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment to Amendment (808843) |
| 4 | Remove line(s) 5-30 and insert: |
| 5 | Section 12. An annual fee of $150 per slot machine is |
| 6 | hereby imposed upon each slot machine approved for use at any |
| 7 | pari-mutuel facility licensed to provide slot machine gaming |
| 8 | under chapter 551, Florida Statutes, which is within 1 miles of |
| 9 | any neighboring municipality. The term "neighboring |
| 10 | municipality" means a municipality that does not have a pari- |
| 11 | mutuel facility licensed to provide slot machine gaming but has |
| 12 | one or more such facilities located within 1 miles of its |
| 13 | municipal borders. Revenue from the fees imposed by this section |
| 14 | must be used by the neighboring municipality for the purpose of |
| 15 | mitigating police, fire, traffic and transportation impacts that |
| 16 | will be caused by implementing section 23, Article X of the |
| 17 | State Constitution and that will occur as a direct result of |
| 18 | slot machine operation. Each pari-mutuel facility licensed to |
| 19 | provide slot machine gaming that is within 1 miles of a |
| 20 | neighboring municipality must remit the annual fee to the |
| 21 | Department of Business and Professional Regulation by February 1 |
| 22 | of each year based on the number of slot machines approved as of |
| 23 | January 1. The department shall distribute the funds to any |
| 24 | neighboring municipality which qualifies for mitigation funding. |
| 25 | A neighboring municipality is not entitled to receive funds |
| 26 | under this section if that municipality currently has a |
| 27 | financial agreement with any such facility. If a facility has an |
| 28 | agreement with any neighboring municipality that is within 1 |
| 29 | miles of the facility and there are no other municipalities |
| 30 | within 1 miles of the facility, the facility is |