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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 874

    Amendment No. 1

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11  The Committee on Fiscal Resource recommended the following

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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

15         On page 1, between lines 11 & 12,

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18         Section 1.  Paragraph (l) of subsection (3) of section

19  125.0104, Florida statutes, is amended to read:

20         125.0104  Tourist development tax; procedure for

21  levying; authorized uses; referendum; enforcement.--

22         (3)  TAXABLE PRIVILEGES; EXEMPTIONS; LEVY; RATE.--

23         (l)  In addition to any other tax which is imposed

24  pursuant to this section, a county may impose up to an

25  additional 1-percent tax on the exercise of the privilege

26  described in paragraph (a) by majority vote of the governing

27  board of the county in order to:

28         1.  Pay the debt service on bonds issued to finance the

29  construction, reconstruction, or renovation of a professional

30  sports franchise facility, or the acquisition, construction,

31  reconstruction, or renovation of a retained spring training

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 1  franchise facility, either publicly owned and operated, or

 2  publicly owned and operated by the owner of a professional

 3  sports franchise or other lessee with sufficient expertise or

 4  financial capability to operate such facility, and to pay the

 5  planning and design costs incurred prior to the issuance of

 6  such bonds.

 7         2.  Pay the debt service on bonds issued to finance the

 8  construction, reconstruction, or renovation of a convention

 9  center, and to pay the planning and design costs incurred

10  prior to the issuance of such bonds.

11         3.  Pay the operation and maintenance costs of a

12  convention center for a period of up to 10 years. Only

13  counties that have elected to levy the tax for the purposes

14  authorized in subparagraph 2. may use the tax for the purposes

15  enumerated in this subparagraph. Counties that have elected to

16  levy the tax for the purposes authorized in subparagraph 2.

17  after July 1, 2000, may use the proceeds to pay the operation

18  and maintenance costs of a convention center for the life of

19  the bonds.

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21  The provision of paragraph (b) which prohibits any county

22  authorized to levy a convention development tax pursuant to s.

23  212.0305 from levying more than the 2-percent tax authorized

24  by this section, and the provisions of paragraphs (4)(a)

25  through (d), shall not apply to the additional tax authorized

26  in this paragraph. The effective date of the levy and

27  imposition of the tax authorized under this paragraph shall be

28  the first day of the second month following approval of the

29  ordinance by the governing board or the first day of any

30  subsequent month as may be specified in the ordinance.  A

31  certified copy of such ordinance shall be furnished by the

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 8  And the title is amended as follows:

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12         An act relating to taxation; amending s.

13         125.0104, F.S.; authorizing counties that elect

14         to levy a tourist development tax to be used to

15         construct, reconstruct, or renovate a

16         convention center after a certain date, to use

17         proceeds to pay the operational and maintenance

18         costs of the convention center for the life of

19         the bonds; amending s. 212.031, F.S.;

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