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                                                  SENATE AMENDMENT

    Bill No. CS for SB 1844

    Amendment No. ___   Barcode 952350

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11  Senator Lee moved the following amendment:

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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 8, between lines 16 and 17,

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17         Section 3.  Subsection (1) of section 240.2605, Florida

18  Statutes, is amended to read:

19         240.2605  Trust Fund for Major Gifts.--

20         (1)  There is established a Trust Fund for Major Gifts.

21  The purpose of the trust fund is to enable the Board of

22  Regents Foundation, each university, and New College to

23  provide donors with an incentive in the form of matching

24  grants for donations for the establishment of permanent

25  endowments and sales tax exemption matching funds received

26  pursuant to s. 212.08(5)(j), which must be invested, with the

27  proceeds of the investment used to support libraries and

28  instruction and research programs, as defined by procedure of

29  the State Board of Education Regents. All funds appropriated

30  for the challenge grants, new donors, major gifts, sales tax

31  exemption matching funds pursuant to s. 212.08(5)(j), or

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  1  eminent scholars program must be deposited into the trust fund

  2  and invested pursuant to s. 18.125 until the State Board of

  3  Education Regents allocates the funds to universities to match

  4  private donations. Notwithstanding s. 216.301 and pursuant to

  5  s. 216.351, any undisbursed balance remaining in the trust

  6  fund and interest income accruing to the portion of the trust

  7  fund which is not matched and distributed to universities must

  8  remain in the trust fund and be used to increase the total

  9  funds available for challenge grants. Funds deposited in the

10  trust fund for the sales tax exemption matching program

11  authorized in s. 212.08(5)(j), and interest earnings thereon,

12  shall be maintained in a separate account within the Trust

13  Fund for Major Gifts, and may be used only to match qualified

14  sales tax exemptions that a certified business designates for

15  use by state universities and community colleges to support

16  research and development projects requested by the certified

17  business. The State Board of Education Regents may authorize

18  any university to encumber the state matching portion of a

19  challenge grant from funds available under s. 240.272.

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21  (Redesignate subsequent sections.)

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25  And the title is amended as follows:

26         On page 1, line 26, after the semicolon

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29         amending s. 240.2605, F.S.; creating an account

30         within the Trust Fund for Major Gifts for the

31         deposit of funds appropriated as state match

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  1         for qualified sales tax exemptions that a

  2         certified business designates for use by state

  3         universities and community colleges to support

  4         research and development projects requested by

  5         the certified business pursuant to s.

  6         212.08(5)(j), F.S.;

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