HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 686
1	CHAMBER ACTION
2	Senate House
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12	Representatives Garcia and Gannon offered the following:
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14	Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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19	343.58 County funding for the South Florida Regional
20	Transportation Authority; license user fee.--
21	(1) Each county served by the South Florida Regional
22	Transportation Authority must dedicate $2.67 million to that
23	authority annually. The recurring annual $2.67 million must be
24	dedicated by the governing body of each county by August 1,
25	2003. Notwithstanding ss. 206.41 and 206.87, Florida Statutes,
26	such dedicated funding may come from each county's share of the
27	ninth-cent fuel tax, the local option fuel tax, or any other
28	source of local gas taxes or other nonfederal funds available to
29	the counties. The Legislature authorizes the levy of an annual
30	license user fee in the amount of $2 for the registration of
31	each vehicle taxed under s. 320.08 and registered in the area
32	served by the South Florida Regional Transportation Authority.
33	The annual license user fee shall take effect in the area served
34	by the authority upon approval by a vote of at least two-thirds
35	of the members of the governing body of each of the counties
36	served by the authority. Following approval by the governing
37	body of each of the counties served by the authority, the annual
38	license user fee shall be levied and the Department of Highway
39	Safety and Motor Vehicles shall remit the proceeds each month
40	from the fee to the South Florida Regional Transportation
41	Authority. If the governing body of one or more of the counties
42	fails to approve the levy of the annual license user fee, the
43	fee may not be imposed within any county served by the South
44	Florida Regional Transportation Authority.
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52	funding; providing for a user fee for vehicle
53	registration; requiring approval by the governing body of
54	each county served by the authority prior to
55	implementation; providing for distribution to the