Florida Senate - 2012                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1132
       
       
       
       
       
       
                                Barcode 768536                          
       
                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                                       .                                
                                       .                                
                                       .                                
                  Floor: WD            .                                
             03/01/2012 06:13 PM       .                                
       —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————




       —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————
       Senator Hays moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 155 and 156
    4  insert:
    5         Section 4. Paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section
    6  599.004, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         599.004 Florida Farm Winery Program; registration; logo;
    8  fees.—
    9         (1) The Florida Farm Winery Program is established within
   10  the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Under this
   11  program, a winery may qualify as a tourist attraction only if it
   12  is registered with and certified by the department as a Florida
   13  Farm Winery. A winery may not claim to be certified unless it
   14  has received written approval from the department.
   15         (a) To qualify as a certified Florida Farm Winery, a winery
   16  must shall meet the following standards:
   17         1. Produce or sell less than 250,000 gallons of wine
   18  annually of which 60 percent of the wine produced is made from
   19  state agricultural products. The Commissioner of Agriculture may
   20  waive this requirement in times of hardship.
   21         2. Maintain a minimum of 5 10 acres of owned or managed
   22  land vineyards in Florida which produces commodities used in the
   23  production of wine.
   24         3. Be open to the public for tours, tastings, and sales at
   25  least 30 hours each week.
   26         4. Make annual application to the department for
   27  recognition as a Florida Farm Winery, on forms provided by the
   28  department.
   29         5. Pay an annual application and registration fee of $100.
   30         Section 5. For the purpose of incorporating the amendment
   31  made by this act to section 599.004, Florida Statutes, in a
   32  reference thereto, subsection (5) of section 561.24, Florida
   33  Statutes, is reenacted to read:
   34         561.24 Licensing manufacturers as distributors or
   35  registered exporters prohibited; procedure for issuance and
   36  renewal of distributors’ licenses and exporters’ registrations.—
   37         (5) Notwithstanding any of the provisions of the foregoing
   38  subsections, any corporation which holds a license as a
   39  distributor on June 3, 1947, shall be entitled to a renewal
   40  thereof, provided such corporation complies with all of the
   41  provisions of the Beverage Law of Florida, as amended, and of
   42  this section and establishes by satisfactory evidence to the
   43  division that, during the 6-month period next preceding its
   44  application for such renewal, of the total volume of its sales
   45  of spirituous liquors, in either dollars or quantity, not more
   46  than 40 percent of such spirituous liquors sold by it, in either
   47  dollars or quantity, were manufactured, rectified, or distilled
   48  by any corporation with which the applicant is affiliated,
   49  directly or indirectly, including any corporation which owns or
   50  controls in any way any stock in the applicant corporation or
   51  any corporation which is a subsidiary or affiliate of the
   52  corporation so owning stock in the applicant corporation. Any
   53  manufacturer of wine holding a license as a distributor on the
   54  effective date of this act shall be entitled to a renewal of
   55  such license notwithstanding the provisions of subsections (1)
   56  (5). This section does not apply to any winery qualifying as a
   57  certified Florida Farm Winery under s. 599.004.
   58  
   59  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   60         And the title is amended as follows:
   61         Delete line 12
   62  and insert:
   63         stakeholders; amending s. 599.004, F.S.; revising
   64         qualifications for a certified Florida Farm Winery;
   65         reenacting s. 561.24(5), F.S., relating to limitations
   66         on the issuance of wine distributor licenses and
   67         exporter registrations, to incorporate changes made by
   68         the act to s. 599.004, F.S., in a reference thereto;
   69         reordering and amending s. 604.50, F.S.;