Florida Senate - 2011                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1346
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/05/2011           .                                
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       The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Detert)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 1356 and 1357
    4  insert:
    5         Section 38. Section 288.386, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
    6         Section 39. Section 288.9618, Florida Statutes, is
    7  repealed.
    8         Section 40. Section 288.982, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
    9         Section 41. Section 409.946, Florida Statute, is repealed.
   10         Section 42. Paragraphs (c), (d), and (e) of subsection (2)
   11  of section 288.012, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   12         288.012 State of Florida foreign offices.—The Legislature
   13  finds that the expansion of international trade and tourism is
   14  vital to the overall health and growth of the economy of this
   15  state. This expansion is hampered by the lack of technical and
   16  business assistance, financial assistance, and information
   17  services for businesses in this state. The Legislature finds
   18  that these businesses could be assisted by providing these
   19  services at State of Florida foreign offices. The Legislature
   20  further finds that the accessibility and provision of services
   21  at these offices can be enhanced through cooperative agreements
   22  or strategic alliances between state entities, local entities,
   23  foreign entities, and private businesses.
   24         (2) Each foreign office shall have in place an operational
   25  plan approved by the participating boards or other governing
   26  authority, a copy of which shall be provided to the Office of
   27  Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development. These operating plans
   28  shall be reviewed and updated each fiscal year and shall
   29  include, at a minimum, the following:
   30         (c) Provisions for access to information for Florida
   31  businesses related to through the Florida Trade Data Center.
   32  Each foreign office shall obtain and forward trade leads and
   33  inquiries to the center on a regular basis.
   34         (d) Identification of new and emerging market opportunities
   35  for Florida businesses. Each foreign office shall provide the
   36  Florida Trade Data Center with a compilation of foreign buyers
   37  and importers in industry sector priority areas on an annual
   38  basis. In return, the Florida Trade Data Center shall make
   39  available to each foreign office, and to Enterprise Florida,
   40  Inc., the Florida Commission on Tourism, the Florida Ports
   41  Council, the Department of State, the Department of Citrus, and
   42  the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, trade
   43  industry, commodity, and opportunity information. This
   44  information shall be provided to such offices and entities
   45  either free of charge or on a fee basis with fees set only to
   46  recover the costs of providing the information.
   47         (e) Provision of access for Florida businesses to the
   48  services of the Florida Trade Data Center, international trade
   49  assistance services provided by state and local entities,
   50  seaport and airport information, and other services identified
   51  by the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development.
   52         Section 43. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
   53  311.07, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   54         311.07 Florida seaport transportation and economic
   55  development funding.—
   56         (3)(a) Program funds shall be used to fund approved
   57  projects on a 50-50 matching basis with any of the deepwater
   58  ports, as listed in s. 403.021(9)(b), which is governed by a
   59  public body or any other deepwater port which is governed by a
   60  public body and which complies with the water quality provisions
   61  of s. 403.061, the comprehensive master plan requirements of s.
   62  163.3178(2)(k), and the local financial management and reporting
   63  provisions of part III of chapter 218. However, program funds
   64  used to fund projects that involve the rehabilitation of
   65  wharves, docks, berths, bulkheads, or similar structures shall
   66  require a 25-percent match of funds. Program funds also may be
   67  used by the Seaport Transportation and Economic Development
   68  Council to develop with the Florida Trade Data Center such trade
   69  data information products which will assist Florida’s seaports
   70  and international trade.
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   73  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   74         And the title is amended as follows:
   75         Delete line 79
   76  and insert:
   77         asbestos surveyors; repealing s. 288.386, F.S.,
   78         relating to the Florida-Caribbean Basin Trade
   79         Initiative; repealing s. 288.9618, F.S., which relates
   80         to an economic development program for
   81         microenterprises; repealing s. 288.982, F.S., which
   82         relates to a public records requirement for certain
   83         records relating to the United States Department of
   84         Defense Base Realignment and Closure 2005 process;
   85         repealing s. 409.946, F.S., which relates to the Inner
   86         City Redevelopment Review Panel; amending ss. 288.012,
   87         and 311.07, F.S.; revising requirements for the
   88         operating plans of the state’s foreign offices and the
   89         use of program funds of the Florida Seaport
   90         Transportation and Economic Development Program, to
   91         delete provisions relating to the Florida Trade Data
   92         Center; providing an effective date.
   93