SENATE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1844, 1st Eng.
Amendment No. ___ Barcode 320770
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11 Senator Pruitt moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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22 And the title is amended as follows:
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27 creating s. 240.72, F.S.; creating the "Florida
28 Technology Development Act"; providing a
29 definition; providing purposes and objectives
30 of a center of excellence; defining terms;
31 creating the Emerging Technology Commission;
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1 providing for membership, powers, and duties of
2 the commission; providing for Florida Research
3 Consortium, Inc., to report to the commission
4 regarding factors contributing to the success
5 of the creation of a center of excellence;
6 requiring the commission to develop and approve
7 criteria for evaluating proposals related to
8 the creation of centers of excellence;
9 requiring the commission to solicit such
10 proposals from state universities; requiring
11 the commission to submit recommended plans to
12 the State Board of Education for establishing
13 centers of excellence in the state; providing
14 for the State Board of Education to develop and
15 approve a final plan for establishing centers
16 of excellence in the state and authorize
17 expenditures for plan implementation; providing
18 commission reporting requirements; providing an
19 expiration date; providing an appropriation for
20 commission staff support and certain
21 administrative expenses; amending s. 159.705,
22 F.S.; specifying that certain entities may
23 operate a project located in a research and
24 development park and financed under the Florida
25 Industrial Development Financing Act; amending
26 s. 445.045, F.S.; reassigning responsibility
27 for development and maintenance of an
28 information technology promotion and workforce
29 recruitment website to Workforce Florida, Inc.;
30 requiring consistency and compatibility with
31 other information systems; authorizing
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1 Workforce Florida, Inc., to secure website
2 services from outside entities; requiring
3 coordination of the information technology
4 website with other marketing, promotion, and
5 advocacy efforts; authorizing Workforce
6 Florida, Inc., to act through the Agency for
7 Workforce Innovation in fulfilling its
8 responsibilities related to the website;
9 directing the agency to provide services to
10 Workforce Florida, Inc.; authorizing a
11 demonstration program to be called Learning
12 Gateway; creating a steering committee;
13 providing for membership and appointment of
14 steering committee members; establishing duties
15 of the steering committee; authorizing
16 demonstration projects in specified counties;
17 authorizing designated agencies to provide
18 confidential information to such program;
19 providing for funding; providing a short title;
20 amending s. 125.0104, F.S.; providing that the
21 additional tax authorized for bonds for a
22 professional sports franchise facility, a
23 retained spring training franchise facility, or
24 a convention center, and for operation and
25 maintenance costs of a convention center, and
26 the additional tax authorized for bonds for
27 facilities for a new professional sports
28 franchise or a retained spring training
29 franchise, may also be used to promote and
30 advertise tourism; amending s. 240.2605, F.S.;
31 creating an account within the Trust Fund for
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1 Major Gifts for the deposit of funds
2 appropriated as state match for qualified sales
3 tax exemptions that a certified business
4 designates for use by state universities and
5 community colleges to support research and
6 development projects requested by the certified
7 business pursuant to s. 212.08(5)(j), F.S.;
8 authorizing specified criteria to be used in a
9 presently required legislative review of
10 certain technology programs; providing for the
11 Office of Program Policy Analysis and
12 Government Accountability to conduct such
13 review; providing an effective date.
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