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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1450

    Amendment No.    

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11  Senator Burt moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 9, between lines 11 and 12,

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17         (m)  Stock options granted to employees by their

18  employer pursuant to an incentive plan, if the employees

19  cannot transfer, sell, or mortgage the options. Stock

20  purchased by an employee from an employer pursuant to an

21  incentive plan shall be treated as a nontaxable stock option

22  if part of the purchase price of the stock is nonrecourse debt

23  secured by the stock and the stock cannot be sold,

24  transferred, or assigned by the employee until the nonrecourse

25  debt is discharged. Such stock becomes taxable stock when it

26  can be sold, transferred, or assigned by the employee.

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30  And the title is amended as follows:

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

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 2         exempting stock options granted to employees by

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