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11  Representative(s) Greenstein and Ogles offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 1, line 11,

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17         Section 1.  The Board of Trustees of the Internal

18  Improvement Trust Fund shall institute a program of

19  privatization of certain state facilities.

20         (1)  The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement

21  Trust Fund shall privatize certain state facilities where the

22  majority private business tenants on the facility are private

23  businesses, the majority private business tenants petition the

24  board of trustees, and the facility meets one or more of the

25  following criteria:

26         (a)  The state facility is more than 25 years old and

27  is in need of substantial capital improvements;

28         (b)  The Office of Program Policy Analysis and

29  Government Accountability has issued a report questioning the

30  long-term viability of the state facility or states that the

31  sale of the state facility is appropriate;

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 1         (c)  The state agency has provided in its budget for

 2  substantial capital improvements to the state facility and the

 3  budget request has gone unfunded for 2 consecutive years; or

 4         (d)  The state facility requires asbestos removal from

 5  the buildings on the facility and such removal has not been

 6  undertaken within 2 years of discovery.

 7         (2)  For purposes of this section, the term:

 8         (a)  "Substantial capital improvement" means that the

 9  capital improvements' cost would exceed 25 percent of the

10  appraised value of the property, including the cost of removal

11  and replacement of outdated buildings on the public property.

12         (b)  "State facility" means public property and

13  buildings consisting of 25 acres or less of state-owned land

14  that is improved with office space and is leased by the state

15  to private tenants that occupy the majority of the square

16  footage of the leased space.

17         (c)  "Majority private business tenants" means the

18  nongovernmental lessees of the state facilities which lease

19  the majority of the square footage of state facilities which

20  is for lease.

21         (3)  The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement

22  Trust Fund shall have 6 months from the date of the receipt of

23  the petition to procure three appraisals of the facility for

24  purposes of negotiating with the petitioning tenants to sell

25  the state facility for the average price of the appraisals.

26         (4)  The agreement for purchase shall be executed by

27  the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund

28  within 9 months after the date of the receipt of tenant

29  petition and shall be for the average price of the three

30  appraisals.

31         (5)  Notwithstanding any other law to the contrary, the

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 1  majority private business tenants shall have a right of first

 2  refusal to purchase the state facility, provided the majority

 3  private business tenants have petitioned the state in their

 4  petition. Such right of first refusal must be exercised within

 5  90 days after notice of the sale to the tenants.

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 9  And the title is amended as follows:

10         On page 1, line 8,

11  remove from the title:  providing an effective date.

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14         designating the procedure for the sale of

15         public property to the tenants doing the

16         majority of business in the public property;

17         authorizing the Division of Facility Management

18         to procure real estate appraisals on the public

19         property; requiring the Board of Trustees of

20         the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to

21         institute a procedure to negotiate the sale and

22         privatization of certain public property and

23         buildings; providing an effective date.

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25         WHEREAS, the State of Florida currently owns

26  significant public properties and buildings located on those

27  public properties, known as state facilities, and

28         WHEREAS, the Legislature wishes to promote businesses

29  within Florida while upgrading certain state facilities

30  through privatization, and

31         WHEREAS, certain state facilities need substantial

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 1  capital improvements to continue to provide the services

 2  necessary for the Florida businesses, and

 3         WHEREAS, it is the Legislature's public policy to

 4  promote private industry in areas such as property

 5  construction, renovation, and management, and

 6         WHEREAS, certain state facilities are operating without

 7  substantial capital improvements to fully optimize the use of

 8  the state facilities, NOW, THEREFORE,

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