Florida Senate - 2017                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1536
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
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                  04/13/2017           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Finance and Tax (Perry)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 80 - 90
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 2. Paragraphs (m) and (n) of subsection (4) of
    6  section 320.08, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         320.08 License taxes.—Except as otherwise provided herein,
    8  there are hereby levied and imposed annual license taxes for the
    9  operation of motor vehicles, mopeds, motorized bicycles as
   10  defined in s. 316.003(2), tri-vehicles as defined in s. 316.003,
   11  and mobile homes as defined in s. 320.01, which shall be paid to
   12  and collected by the department or its agent upon the
   13  registration or renewal of registration of the following:
   14         (4) HEAVY TRUCKS, TRUCK TRACTORS, FEES ACCORDING TO GROSS
   15  VEHICLE WEIGHT.—
   16         (m) Notwithstanding the declared gross vehicle weight, a
   17  truck tractor used within this state a 150-mile radius of its
   18  home address is eligible for a license plate for a fee of $324
   19  flat if:
   20         1. The truck tractor is used exclusively for hauling
   21  forestry products; or
   22         2. The truck tractor is used primarily for the hauling of
   23  forestry products, and is also used for the hauling of
   24  associated forestry harvesting equipment used by the owner of
   25  the truck tractor.
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   27  Of the fee imposed by this paragraph, $84 shall be deposited
   28  into the General Revenue Fund.
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   31  And the title is amended as follows:
   32         Delete line 9
   33  and insert:
   34         F.S.; revising the circumstances under which truck
   35         tractors used in certain forestry-related activities
   36         are eligible for a specified license plate fee;
   37         revising the circumstances under which a truck