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| 1 | CHAMBER ACTION | ||
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| 6 | The Committee on Finance & Tax recommends the following: | ||
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| 8 | Committee Substitute | ||
| 9 | Remove the entire bill and insert: | ||
| 10 | A bill to be entitled | ||
| 11 | An act relating to county tourism promotion agencies; | ||
| 12 | amending s. 125.01, F.S.; revising powers of the county | ||
| 13 | governing body; authorizing the county to prohibit | ||
| 14 | business entities that are not county tourism promotion | ||
| 15 | agencies from using certain specified designations; | ||
| 16 | amending s. 125.0104, F.S.; revising powers and duties of | ||
| 17 | county tourism promotion agencies; authorizing the use of | ||
| 18 | certain designations by said agencies; providing an | ||
| 19 | effective date. | ||
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| 21 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: | ||
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| 23 | Section 1. Paragraph (dd) is added to subsection (1) of | ||
| 24 | section 125.01, Florida Statutes, to read: | ||
| 25 | 125.01 Powers and duties.-- | ||
| 26 | (1) The legislative and governing body of a county shall | ||
| 27 | have the power to carry on county government. To the extent not | ||
| 28 | inconsistent with general or special law, this power includes, | ||
| 29 | but is not restricted to, the power to: | ||
| 30 | (dd) Prohibit a business entity, other than a county | ||
| 31 | tourism promotion agency, from using names as specified in s. | ||
| 32 | 125.0104(9)(e) when representing itself to the public as an | ||
| 33 | entity representing tourism interests of the county levying the | ||
| 34 | local option tourist development tax under s. 125.0104. | ||
| 35 | Section 2. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (9) of | ||
| 36 | section 125.0104, Florida Statutes, to read: | ||
| 37 | 125.0104 Tourist development tax; procedure for levying; | ||
| 38 | authorized uses; referendum; enforcement.-- | ||
| 39 | (9) COUNTY TOURISM PROMOTION AGENCIES.--In addition to any | ||
| 40 | other powers and duties provided for agencies created for the | ||
| 41 | purpose of tourism promotion by a county levying the tourist | ||
| 42 | development tax, such agencies are authorized and empowered to: | ||
| 43 | (e) Represent themselves to the public as convention and | ||
| 44 | visitors bureaus, visitors bureaus, tourist development | ||
| 45 | councils, vacation bureaus, or county tourism promotion agencies | ||
| 46 | operating under any other name or names specifically designated | ||
| 47 | by ordinance. | ||
| 48 | Section 3. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law. | ||