Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (556478) for CS for SB 680
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/16/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Hukill) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 355 - 397
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 8. Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section
    6  379.223, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         379.223 Citizen support organizations; use of state
    8  property; audit.—
    9         (1) The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission may
   10  authorize the establishment of citizen support organizations to
   11  provide assistance, funding, and promotional support for the
   12  programs of the commission. For purposes of this section, the
   13  term “citizen support organization” means an organization which:
   14         (b) Is organized and operated to conduct programs and
   15  activities; raise funds; request and receive grants, gifts, and
   16  bequests of money; acquire, receive, hold, invest, and
   17  administer in its own name securities, funds, or real or
   18  personal property; and make expenditures for the benefit of the
   19  commission or an individual program unit of the commission;
   20  except that such organization may not receive funds from the
   21  commission or the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute by grant
   22  or, gift, or contract unless specifically authorized by the
   23  Legislature. If the citizen support organization by contract
   24  provides fiscal and administrative services to the commission on
   25  a grant or program that benefits the commission, the
   26  organization may be reimbursed or compensated for such services
   27  by the commission, provided the services are a direct benefit to
   28  the commission.
   29         Section 9. Subsections (1), (4), and (5) of section
   30  379.3751, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
   31         379.3751 Taking and possession of alligators; trapping
   32  licenses; fees.—
   33         (1)(a) A No person may not shall take or possess an any
   34  alligator or the eggs thereof without having first been issued
   35  an alligator license under obtained from the commission a
   36  trapping license and paid the fee provided in this section. Such
   37  license shall be dated when issued and remain valid for 12
   38  months after the date of issuance and authorizes shall authorize
   39  the person to whom it is issued to take or possess alligators
   40  and their eggs, and to sell, possess, and process alligators and
   41  their hides and meat, in accordance with law and commission
   42  rules. Such license is shall not be transferable and is shall
   43  not be valid unless it bears on its face in indelible ink the
   44  name of the person to whom it is issued. Such license shall be
   45  in the personal possession of the licensee while such person is
   46  taking alligators or their eggs or is selling, possessing, or
   47  processing alligators or their eggs, hides, or meat. The failure
   48  of the licensee to exhibit such license to a the commission law
   49  enforcement officer or its wildlife officers, when such person
   50  is found taking alligators or their eggs or is found selling,
   51  possessing, or processing alligators or their eggs, hides, or
   52  meat, is shall be a violation of law.
   53         (b) In order to assure the optimal utilization of the
   54  estimated available alligator resource and to ensure adequate
   55  control of the alligator management and harvest program, the
   56  commission may by rule limit the number of participants engaged
   57  in the taking of alligators or their eggs from the wild.
   58         (b)(c)A No person who has been convicted of any violation
   59  of s. 379.3015 or s. 379.409 or the rules of the commission
   60  relating to the illegal taking of crocodilian species may not
   61  shall be issued eligible for issuance of a license for a period
   62  of 5 years subsequent to such conviction. In the event such
   63  violation involves the unauthorized taking of an endangered
   64  crocodilian species, a no license may not shall be issued for 10
   65  years subsequent to the conviction.
   66         (c) A person taking a nuisance alligator pursuant to
   67  contract with the commission is not required to obtain an
   68  alligator trapping license. A person assisting a contracted
   69  nuisance alligator trapper, unless otherwise exempt under
   70  paragraph (d), paragraph (e), or paragraph (f), is required to
   71  possess an alligator trapping license or an alligator trapping
   72  agent’s license as provided in
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   75  And the title is amended as follows:
   76         Between lines 24 and 25
   77  insert:
   78         amending s. 379.223, F.S.; authorizing citizen support
   79         organizations to receive funds from the commission if
   80         the organizations provide services by contract under
   81         certain circumstances;