| 1 | The Committee on Commerce recommends the following: |
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| 3 | Committee Substitute |
| 4 | Remove the entire bill and insert: |
| 5 | A bill to be entitled |
| 6 | An act relating to enterprise zones; creating s. |
| 7 | 290.00702, F.S.; providing for application by Osceola |
| 8 | County or Osceola County and the City of Kissimmee jointly |
| 9 | to apply for designation of an enterprise zone; |
| 10 | authorizing the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic |
| 11 | Development to designate an enterprise zone within an area |
| 12 | of Osceola County or of Osceola County and the City of |
| 13 | Kissimmee jointly; providing requirements with respect |
| 14 | thereto; authorizing the governing body of certain |
| 15 | counties to apply to the Office of Tourism, Trade, and |
| 16 | Economic Development to amend the boundaries of a certain |
| 17 | area within a certain enterprise zone; requiring the |
| 18 | office to approve the application under certain |
| 19 | circumstances; providing requirements; amending s. |
| 20 | 290.0065, F.S.; authorizing certain counties to apply to |
| 21 | the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development to |
| 22 | amend existing enterprise zone boundaries under specified |
| 23 | conditions and in accordance with certain criteria; |
| 24 | providing an effective date. |
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| 26 | Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: |
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| 28 | Section 1. Section 290.00702, Florida Statutes, is created |
| 29 | to read: |
| 30 | 290.00702 Enterprise zone designation for Osceola County |
| 31 | or Osceola County and Kissimmee.--Osceola County, or Osceola |
| 32 | County and the City of Kissimmee jointly, may apply to the |
| 33 | Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development for |
| 34 | designation of one enterprise zone within the county or within |
| 35 | both the county and the city. The application must be submitted |
| 36 | by December 31, 2004, and must comply with the requirements of |
| 37 | s. 290.0055. Notwithstanding the provisions of s. 290.0065 |
| 38 | limiting the total number of enterprise zones designated and the |
| 39 | number of enterprise zones within a population category, the |
| 40 | Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development may designate |
| 41 | one enterprise zone under this section. The Office of Tourism, |
| 42 | Trade, and Economic Development shall establish the initial |
| 43 | effective date of the enterprise zone designated under this |
| 44 | section. |
| 45 | Section 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of chapter |
| 46 | 290, Florida Statutes, the governing body of any inland county |
| 47 | with a state-designated enterprise zone and a population greater |
| 48 | than 500,000 may apply to the Office of Tourism, Trade, and |
| 49 | Economic Development to amend the boundaries of such an |
| 50 | enterprise zone. The increased areas shall be contiguous to the |
| 51 | existing enterprise zone. The office shall approve the |
| 52 | application as long as the amended area does not exceed 5 square |
| 53 | miles and is consistent with the categories, criteria, and |
| 54 | limitations imposed by s. 290.0055, Florida Statutes, upon the |
| 55 | establishment of such enterprise zone. The enterprise zone |
| 56 | boundary amendment application must be received before December |
| 57 | 31, 2004. |
| 58 | Section 3. Subsection (12) is added to section 290.0065, |
| 59 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 60 | 290.0065 State designation of enterprise zones.-- |
| 61 | (12) Before November 30, 2004, any county as defined in s. |
| 62 | 125.011 may apply to the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic |
| 63 | Development to change the boundaries of an existing enterprise |
| 64 | zone for the purpose of replacing an area of not more than 75 |
| 65 | acres within the enterprise zone as of January 1, 2004, with an |
| 66 | area of the same number of acres outside the enterprise zone as |
| 67 | of January 1, 2004. The replacement area must be contiguous to |
| 68 | the existing enterprise zone and must be a part of a |
| 69 | revitalization area that has been targeted for assistance by the |
| 70 | county. The replacement area also must be contiguous to a zoo |
| 71 | and the county must have previously completed a master plan for |
| 72 | development of the area. The Office of Tourism, Trade, and |
| 73 | Economic Development shall approve the amendment effective |
| 74 | January 1, 2005, if the enterprise zone remains consistent with |
| 75 | the criteria and conditions imposed by s. 290.0055 upon the |
| 76 | establishment of enterprise zones, including the requirement |
| 77 | that the area suffer from pervasive poverty, unemployment, and |
| 78 | general distress. |
| 79 | Section 4. This act shall take effect July 1, 2004. |