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                                                   HOUSE AMENDMENT

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11  The Committee on Finance & Taxation offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14  remove from the bill:  everything after the enacting clause

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16  and insert in lieu thereof:

17         Section 1.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section

18  210.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

19         210.20  Employees and assistants; distribution of

20  funds.--

21         (2)  As collections are received by the division from

22  such cigarette taxes, it shall pay the same into a trust fund

23  in the State Treasury designated "Cigarette Tax Collection

24  Trust Fund" which shall be paid and distributed as follows:

25         (a)  The division shall from month to month certify to

26  the Comptroller the amount derived from the cigarette tax

27  imposed by s. 210.02, less the service charges provided for in

28  s. 215.20 and less 0.9 percent of the amount derived from the

29  cigarette tax imposed by s. 210.02, which shall be deposited

30  into the Alcoholic Beverage and Tobacco Trust Fund, specifying

31  the amounts to be transferred from the Cigarette Tax

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 1  Collection Trust Fund and credited on the basis of 5.8 percent

 2  of the net collections to the Municipal Financial Assistance

 3  Trust Fund, 32.4 percent of the net collections to the Revenue

 4  Sharing Trust Fund for Municipalities, 2.9 percent of the net

 5  collections to the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund for Counties,

 6  and 29.3 percent of the net collections for the funding of

 7  indigent health care to the Public Medical Assistance Trust

 8  Fund.

 9         Section 2.  Paragraph (f) of subsection (6) of section

10  212.20, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

11         212.20  Funds collected, disposition; additional powers

12  of department; operational expense; refund of taxes

13  adjudicated unconstitutionally collected.--

14         (6)  Distribution of all proceeds under this chapter

15  shall be as follows:

16         (f)  The proceeds of all other taxes and fees imposed

17  pursuant to this chapter shall be distributed as follows:

18         1.  In any fiscal year, the greater of $500 million,

19  minus an amount equal to 4.6 percent of the proceeds of the

20  taxes collected pursuant to chapter 201, or 5 percent of all

21  other taxes and fees imposed pursuant to this chapter shall be

22  deposited in monthly installments into the General Revenue

23  Fund.

24         2.  Two-tenths of one percent shall be transferred to

25  the Solid Waste Management Trust Fund.

26         3.  After the distribution under subparagraphs 1. and

27  2., 9.653 percent of the amount remitted by a sales tax dealer

28  located within a participating county pursuant to s. 218.61

29  shall be transferred into the Local Government Half-cent Sales

30  Tax Clearing Trust Fund.

31         4.  After the distribution under subparagraphs 1., 2.,

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 1  and 3., 0.054 percent shall be transferred to the Local

 2  Government Half-cent Sales Tax Clearing Trust Fund and

 3  distributed pursuant to s. 218.65.

 4         5.  For proceeds received after July 1, 2000, and after

 5  the distributions under subparagraphs 1., 2., 3., and 4., 0.91

 6  percent of the available proceeds pursuant to this paragraph

 7  shall be transferred monthly to the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund

 8  for Municipalities pursuant to s. 218.215.

 9         6.5.  Of the remaining proceeds:

10         a.  One hundred sixty-six thousand six hundred and

11  sixty-seven dollars Beginning July 1, 1992, $166,667 shall be

12  distributed monthly by the department to each applicant that

13  has been certified as a "facility for a new professional

14  sports franchise" or a "facility for a retained professional

15  sports franchise" pursuant to s. 288.1162 and $41,667 shall be

16  distributed monthly by the department to each applicant that

17  has been certified as a "new spring training franchise

18  facility" pursuant to s. 288.1162. Distributions shall begin

19  60 days following such certification and shall continue for 30

20  years. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to allow an

21  applicant certified pursuant to s. 288.1162 to receive more in

22  distributions than actually expended by the applicant for the

23  public purposes provided for in s. 288.1162(7). However, a

24  certified applicant shall receive distributions up to the

25  maximum amount allowable and undistributed under this section

26  for additional renovations and improvements to the facility

27  for the franchise without additional certification.

28         b.  Beginning 30 days after notice by the Office of

29  Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development to the Department of

30  Revenue that an applicant has been certified as the

31  professional golf hall of fame pursuant to s. 288.1168 and is

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 1  open to the public, $166,667 shall be distributed monthly, for

 2  up to 300 months, to the applicant.

 3         c.  Beginning 30 days after notice by the Department of

 4  Commerce to the Department of Revenue that the applicant has

 5  been certified as the International Game Fish Association

 6  World Center facility pursuant to s. 288.1169, and the

 7  facility is open to the public, $83,333 shall be distributed

 8  monthly, for up to 180 months, to the applicant.  This

 9  distribution is subject to reduction pursuant to s. 288.1169.

10         7.6.  All other proceeds shall remain with the General

11  Revenue Fund.

12         Section 3.  Subsection (6) of section 288.1169, Florida

13  Statutes, is amended to read:

14         288.1169  International Game Fish Association World

15  Center facility; department duties.--

16         (6)  The Department of Commerce must recertify every 10

17  years that the facility is open, that the International Game

18  Fish Association World Center continues to be the only

19  international administrative headquarters, fishing museum, and

20  Hall of Fame in the United States recognized by the

21  International Game Fish Association, and that the project is

22  meeting the minimum projections for attendance or sales tax

23  revenues as required at the time of original certification.

24  If the facility is not recertified during this 10-year review

25  as meeting the minimum projections, then funding will be

26  abated until certification criteria are met.  If the project

27  fails to generate $1 million of annual revenues pursuant to

28  paragraph (2)(e), the distribution of revenues pursuant to s.

29  212.20(6)(f)6.5.c. shall be reduced to an amount equal to

30  $83,333 multiplied by a fraction, the numerator of which is

31  the actual revenues generated and the denominator of which is

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 1  $1 million.  Such reduction shall remain in effect until

 2  revenues generated by the project in a 12-month period equal

 3  or exceed $1 million.

 4         Section 4.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section

 5  11.45, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

 6         11.45  Definitions; duties; audits; reports.--

 7         (3)

 8         (b)  The Legislative Auditing Committee shall direct

 9  the Auditor General to make a financial audit of any

10  municipality whenever petitioned to do so by at least 20

11  percent of the electors of that municipality.  The supervisor

12  of elections of the county in which the municipality is

13  located shall certify whether or not the petition contains the

14  signatures of at least 20 percent of the electors of the

15  municipality. After the completion of the audit, the Auditor

16  General shall determine whether the municipality has the

17  fiscal resources necessary to pay the cost of the audit. The

18  municipality shall pay the cost of the audit within 90 days

19  after the Auditor General's determination that the

20  municipality has the available resources. If the municipality

21  fails to pay the cost of the audit, the Department of Revenue

22  shall, upon certification of the Auditor General, withhold

23  from that portion of the distribution pursuant to s.

24  212.20(6)(f)5. municipal financial assistance trust fund for

25  municipalities which is derived from the cigarette tax imposed

26  under chapter 210, and which is distributable to such

27  municipality, a sum sufficient to pay the cost of the audit

28  and shall deposit that sum into the General Revenue Fund of

29  the state.

30         Section 5.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2000.

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 2  And the title is amended as follows:

 3  remove from the title of the bill:  the entire title

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 5  and insert in lieu thereof:

 6                      A bill to be entitled

 7         An act relating to revenue sharing with

 8         municipal governments; amending s. 210.20,

 9         F.S.; eliminating transfers of net cigarette

10         tax collections to the Municipal Financial

11         Assistance Trust Fund and Revenue Sharing Trust

12         Fund for Municipalities; amending s. 212.20,

13         F.S.; authorizing a distribution of proceeds

14         under ch. 212, F.S., to the Revenue Sharing

15         Trust Fund for Municipalities; amending s.

16         288.1169, F.S.; revising a cross reference, to

17         conform; amending s. 11.45, F.S.; revising a

18         reference, to conform; providing an effective

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