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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. SB 874

    Amendment No. 2

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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 5, between lines 16 & 17,

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18         Section 2.  Paragraph (a) of subsection (6) of section

19  212.084, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

20         212.084  Review of exemption certificates; reissuance;

21  specified expiration date; temporary exemption certificates.--

22         (6)(a)1.  The Department of Revenue may issue temporary

23  exemption certificates to newly organized charitable

24  organizations applying for exemption under s. 212.08(7)(o)2.b.

25  when a lack of historical information prevents the applicant

26  from qualifying immediately for an exemption certificate. The

27  department may require the applicant to submit the information

28  necessary to demonstrate that the organization's proposed

29  activities will qualify for exemption under this chapter. The

30  application must include an estimate of the organization's

31  expenditures that would be taxable except for the temporary

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 1  exemption certificate. If at any time the amount of actual

 2  expenditures otherwise subject to tax exceeds the anticipated

 3  amount, the applicant must file with the department a

 4  supplemental application stating the actual expenditures and

 5  the estimated expenditures for the duration of the period

 6  covered by the temporary certificate.

 7         2.  The Department of Revenue may issue temporary

 8  exemption certificates to organizations applying for exemption

 9  as a "church, synagogue, or other established physical place

10  for worship at which nonprofit religious services and

11  activities are regularly conducted and carried on" pursuant to

12  s. 212.08(7)(o)2.a. when the applicant does not currently have

13  its own established physical place for worship and this lack

14  prevents the applicant from qualifying immediately for an

15  exemption certificate. The temporary certificate is only

16  available if the applicant has, at the time of the

17  application, purchased real property and entered into a

18  contract for the erection of an established physical place for

19  worship on its real property. The department may require the

20  applicant to submit the information necessary to demonstrate

21  that the requirements of this paragraph have been met and

22  that, once erected, the building will be used for the

23  applicant's regular religious services and activities.

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29  And the title is amended as follows:

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 2         amending s. 212.084, F.S.; authorizing the

 3         Department of Revenue to issue temporary sales

 4         tax exemption certificates to certain churches

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