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11 The Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care recommended
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18 Section 1. Section 288.1175, Florida Statutes, is
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20 288.1175 Agriculture education and promotion
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22 (1) The Department of Agriculture and Consumer
23 Services shall serve as the state agency for screening
24 applicants for state funding pursuant to this section and for
25 certifying an applicant as a qualified agriculture education
26 and promotion facility as defined in subsection (3).
27 (2) The department shall develop rules pursuant to ss.
28 120.536(1) and 120.54 for the receipt and processing of
29 applications for funding of projects pursuant to this section.
30 (3) As used in this section, the term "agriculture
31 education and promotion facility" means an exhibition hall,
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1 arena, civic center, exposition center, or other capital
2 project or facility which can be used for exhibitions,
3 demonstrations, trade shows, classrooms, civic events, and
4 other purposes that promote agriculture, horticulture,
5 livestock, equestrian, and other resources of the state and
6 educate the residents as to these resources.
7 (4) The department shall certify a facility as an
8 agriculture education and promotion facility if the department
9 determines that:
10 (a) The applicant is a unit of local government as
11 defined in s. 218.369, or a fair association as defined in s.
12 616.001(9), which is responsible for the planning, design,
13 permitting, construction, renovation, management, and
14 operation of the agriculture education and promotion facility
15 or holds title to the property on which such facility is to be
16 developed and located.
17 (b) The applicant has projections, verified by the
18 department, which demonstrate that the agriculture education
19 and promotion facility will serve more than 25,000 visitors
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21 (c) The municipality in which the facility is located,
22 or the county if the facility is located in an unincorporated
23 area, has certified by resolution after a public hearing that
24 the proposed agriculture education and promotion facility
25 serves a public purpose.
26 (d) The applicant has demonstrated that it has
27 provided, is capable of providing, or has financial or other
28 commitments to provide more than 40 percent of the costs
29 incurred or related to the planning, design, permitting,
30 construction, or renovation of the facility. The applicant may
31 include the value of the land and any improvements thereon in
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1 determining its contribution to the development of the
2 facility.
3 (5) The department shall competitively evaluate
4 applications for funding of an agriculture education and
5 promotion facility. If the number of applicants exceeds three,
6 the department shall rank the applications based upon criteria
7 developed by the department, with priority given in descending
8 order to the following items:
9 (a) The intended use of the funds by the applicant,
10 with priority given to the construction of a new facility.
11 (b) The amount of local match, with priority given to
12 the largest percentage of local match proposed.
13 (c) The location of the facility in a brownfield site
14 as defined in s. 376.79(3), a rural enterprise zone as defined
15 in s. 290.004(8), an agriculturally depressed area as defined
16 in s. 570.242(1), a redevelopment area established pursuant to
17 s. 373.461(5)(g), or a county that has lost its agricultural
18 land to environmental restoration projects.
19 (d) The net increase, as a result of the facility, of
20 total available exhibition, arena, or civic center space
21 within the jurisdictional limits of the local government in
22 which the facility is to be located, with priority given to
23 the largest percentage increase of total exhibition, arena, or
24 civic center space.
25 (e) The historic record of the applicant in promoting
26 agriculture and educating the public about agriculture,
27 including, without limitation, awards, premiums, scholarships,
28 auctions, and other such activities.
29 (f) The highest projection on paid attendance
30 attracted by the agriculture education and promotion facility
31 and the proposed economic impact on the local community.
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1 (g) The location of the facility with respect to an
2 Institute of Food and Agricultural Services (IFAS) facility,
3 with priority given to facilities closer in proximity to an
4 IFAS facility.
5 (6) Funds may not be expended to develop or subsidize
6 privately owned facilities, except for facilities owned by
7 fair associations as defined in s. 616.001(9).
8 (7) An applicant may use funds provided pursuant to
9 this section only for the public purpose of paying for the
10 planning, design, permitting, construction, or renovation of
11 an agriculture education and promotion facility or to pay or
12 pledge for the payment of debt service on, or to fund debt
13 service reserve funds, arbitrage rebate obligations, or other
14 amounts payable with respect to, bonds issued for the
15 planning, design, permitting, construction, or renovation of
16 such facility or for the reimbursement of such costs or the
17 refinancing of bonds issued for such purposes.
18 (8) Applications must be submitted by October 1 of
19 each year with facility funding to be made by January 1 of
20 each year. The department may not provide funding for less
21 than the requested amount to any applicant certified as an
22 agriculture education and promotion facility; however, funding
23 of certified applicants shall be subject to the amount
24 provided by the Legislature in the General Appropriations Act
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31 And the title is amended as follows:
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4 creating s. 288.1175, F.S.; providing that the
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7 applicants for state funding and certification
8 as an agriculture education and promotion
9 facility; providing for rules; providing
10 definitions; providing criteria for applicants;
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12 providing criteria; prohibiting the expenditure
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