HB 0593 2003
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:
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11	A bill to be entitled
12	An act relating to beach improvement; amending s.
13	125.0104, F.S.; prohibiting use or loan of moneys
14	designated for beach improvement, maintenance,
15	renourishment, restoration, or erosion control for other
16	purposes; providing an effective date.
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18	Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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20	Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section
21	125.0104, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
22	125.0104 Tourist development tax; procedure for levying;
23	authorized uses; referendum; enforcement.--
24	(5) AUTHORIZED USES OF REVENUE.--
25	(a) All tax revenues received pursuant to this section by
26	a county imposing the tourist development tax shall be used by
27	that county for the following purposes only:
28	1. To acquire, construct, extend, enlarge, remodel,
29	repair, improve, maintain, operate, or promote one or more
30	publicly owned and operated convention centers, sports stadiums,
31	sports arenas, coliseums, or auditoriums, or museums that are
32	publicly owned and operated or owned and operated by not-for-
33	profit organizations and open to the public, within the
34	boundaries of the county or subcounty special taxing district in
35	which the tax is levied. Tax revenues received pursuant to this
36	section may also be used for promotion of zoological parks that
37	are publicly owned and operated or owned and operated by not-
38	for-profit organizations and open to the public. However, these
39	purposes may be implemented through service contracts and leases
40	with lessees with sufficient expertise or financial capability
41	to operate such facilities;
42	2. To promote and advertise tourism in the State of
43	Florida and nationally and internationally; however, if tax
44	revenues are expended for an activity, service, venue, or event,
45	the activity, service, venue, or event shall have as one of its
46	main purposes the attraction of tourists as evidenced by the
47	promotion of the activity, service, venue, or event to tourists;
48	3. To fund convention bureaus, tourist bureaus, tourist
49	information centers, and news bureaus as county agencies or by
50	contract with the chambers of commerce or similar associations
51	in the county, which may include any indirect administrative
52	costs for services performed by the county on behalf of the
53	promotion agency; or
54	4. To finance beach park facilities or beach improvement,
55	maintenance, renourishment, restoration, and erosion control,
56	including shoreline protection, enhancement, cleanup, or
57	restoration of inland lakes and rivers to which there is public
58	access as those uses relate to the physical preservation of the
59	beach, shoreline, or inland lake or river. However, any funds
60	identified by a county as the local matching source for beach
61	renourishment, restoration, or erosion control projects included
62	in the long-range budget for the state’s beach management plan
63	pursuant to s. 161.091 or funds contractually obligated by a
64	county in the financial plan for a federally authorized shore
65	protection project may not be used or loaned for any other
66	purpose.In counties of less than 100,000 population, no more
67	than 10 percent of the revenues from the tourist development tax
68	may be used for beach park facilities.
69	Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.