Senate Bill sb1432

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1432

    By Senator Bullard





    39-1009-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to enterprise zones; amending

  3         s. 290.0065, F.S.; authorizing certain counties

  4         to apply to the Office Of Tourism, Trade, and

  5         Economic Development to amend existing

  6         enterprise zone boundaries under specified

  7         conditions and in accordance with certain

  8         criteria; providing an effective date.

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10  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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12         Section 1.  Subsection (12) is added to section

13  290.0065, Florida Statutes, to read:

14         290.0065  State designation of enterprise zones.--

15         (12)  Before November 30, 2004, any county as defined

16  in s. 125.011 may apply to the Office of Tourism, Trade, and

17  Economic Development to change the boundaries of an existing

18  enterprise zone for the purpose of replacing an area of not

19  more than 75 acres within the enterprise zone as of January 1,

20  2004, with an area of the same number of acres outside the

21  enterprise zone as of January 1, 2004. The replacement area

22  must be contiguous to the existing enterprise zone and must be

23  a part of a revitalization area that has been targeted for

24  assistance by the county. The replacement area also must be

25  contiguous to a zoo and the county must have previously

26  completed a master plan for development of the area. The

27  Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development shall

28  approve the amendment effective January 1, 2005, if the

29  enterprise zone remains consistent with the criteria and

30  conditions imposed by s. 290.0055 upon the establishment of

31  enterprise zones, including the requirement that the area

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    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1432
    39-1009-04




 1  suffer from pervasive poverty, unemployment, and general

 2  distress.

 3         Section 2.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2004.

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 6                          SENATE SUMMARY

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      zone boundaries through the Office of Tourism, Trade, and
 8    Economic Development under specified conditions and in
      accordance with certain criteria.
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