HOUSE AMENDMENT

                                                   Bill No. HB 743

    Amendment No. ___ (for drafter's use only)

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11  Representative(s) Kilmer offered the following:

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13         Amendment to Amendment (902775) (with title amendment) 

14         On page 36, between lines 7 and 8, of the amendment

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17         Section 5.  Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) of

18  section 288.0655, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

19         288.0655  Rural Infrastructure Fund.--

20         (2)(a)  Funds appropriated by the Legislature shall be

21  distributed by the office through a grant programs program

22  that maximize maximizes the use of federal, local, and private

23  resources, including, but not limited to, those available

24  under the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant

25  Program.

26         (b)  To facilitate access of rural communities and

27  rural areas of critical economic concern as defined by the

28  Rural Economic Development Initiative to infrastructure

29  funding programs of the Federal Government, such as those

30  offered by the United States Department of Agriculture and the

31  United States Department of Commerce, and state programs,

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  1  including those offered by Rural Economic Development

  2  Initiative agencies, and to facilitate local government or

  3  private infrastructure funding efforts, the office may award

  4  grants to applicants for such federal programs for up to 30

  5  percent of the total infrastructure project cost. Eligible

  6  projects must be related to specific job creation or job

  7  retention creating opportunities. Eligible projects may also

  8  include improving any inadequate infrastructure that has

  9  resulted in regulatory action that prohibits economic or

10  community growth or reducing the costs to community users of

11  proposed infrastructure improvements that exceed such costs in

12  comparable communities.  Eligible uses of funds shall include

13  improvements to public infrastructure for industrial or

14  commercial sites and upgrades to or development of public

15  tourism infrastructure. Authorized infrastructure may include

16  the following public or public-private partnership facilities:

17  storm water systems; telecommunications facilities; roads or

18  other remedies to transportation impediments; nature-based

19  tourism facilities; or other physical requirements necessary

20  to facilitate tourism, trade, and economic development

21  activities in the community. Authorized infrastructure may

22  also include publicly owned self-powered nature-based tourism

23  facilities and additions to the distribution facilities of the

24  existing natural gas utility as defined in s. 366.04(3)(c),

25  the existing electric utility as defined in s. 366.02, or the

26  existing water or wastewater utility as defined in s.

27  367.021(12), or any other existing water or wastewater

28  facility, which owns a gas or electric distribution system or

29  a water or wastewater system in this state where:

30         1.  A contribution-in-aid of construction is required

31  to serve public or public-private partnership facilities under

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  1  the tariffs of any natural gas, electric, water, or wastewater

  2  utility as defined herein; and

  3         2.  Such utilities as defined herein are willing and

  4  able to provide such service.

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  8  And the title is amended as follows:

  9         On page 38, line 18, of the amendment

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12         amending s. 288.0655, F.S.; providing for

13         additional uses of moneys in the Rural

14         Infrastructure Fund;

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