SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1688

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 715404

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11  Senator Villalobos moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 4, between lines 29 and 30,

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17         Section 3.  Paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section

18  125.35, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

19         125.35  County authorized to sell real and personal

20  property and to lease real property.--

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22         (b)  Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a),

23  the board of county commissioners is expressly authorized to:

24         1.  Negotiate the lease of an airport or seaport

25  facility;

26         2.  Modify or extend an existing lease of real property

27  for an additional term not to exceed 25 years, where the

28  improved value of the lease has an appraised value in excess

29  of $20 million; or

30         3.  Lease a professional sports franchise facility

31  financed by revenues received pursuant to s. 125.0104 or s.

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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1688

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 715404





  1  212.20; or

  2         4.  Lease a parcel of real property of 5 acres or less,

  3  located in an area designated as a federal empowerment zone

  4  under the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997, for enhancing,

  5  promoting, or improving economic activity or revitalization,

  6  urban development or redevelopment, tourism, transportation,

  7  or providing opportunities for gainful employment, which are

  8  hereby found and declared to be public purposes;

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10  under such terms and conditions as negotiated by the board.

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12  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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16  And the title is amended as follows:

17         On page 1, line 13,  after the semicolon,

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20         amending s. 125.35, F.S.; authorizing boards of

21         county commissioners to lease without a

22         competitive process certain property for

23         certain purposes;

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