Florida Senate - 2004 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 16-A
Barcode 885676
CHAMBER ACTION
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11 The Committee on Agriculture (Smith) recommended the following
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 5. Paragraph (a) of subsection (5) of section
19 212.08, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
20 212.08 Sales, rental, use, consumption, distribution,
21 and storage tax; specified exemptions.--The sale at retail,
22 the rental, the use, the consumption, the distribution, and
23 the storage to be used or consumed in this state of the
24 following are hereby specifically exempt from the tax imposed
25 by this chapter.
26 (5) EXEMPTIONS; ACCOUNT OF USE.--
27 (a) Items in agricultural use and certain nets.--There
28 are exempt from the tax imposed by this chapter nets designed
29 and used exclusively by commercial fisheries; disinfectants,
30 fertilizers, insecticides, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides,
31 and weed killers used for application on crops or groves,
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Bill No. SB 16-A
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1 including commercial nurseries and home vegetable gardens,
2 used in dairy barns or on poultry farms for the purpose of
3 protecting poultry or livestock, or used directly on poultry
4 or livestock; portable containers or movable receptacles in
5 which portable containers are placed, used for processing farm
6 products; field and garden seeds, including flower seeds;
7 nursery stock, seedlings, cuttings, or other propagative
8 material purchased for growing stock; seeds, seedlings,
9 cuttings, and plants used to produce food for human
10 consumption; cloth, plastic, and other similar materials used
11 for shade, mulch, or protection from frost or insects on a
12 farm; generators used on poultry farms; and liquefied
13 petroleum gas or other fuel used to heat a structure in which
14 started pullets or broilers are raised or horticultural
15 products are grown; however, such exemption shall not be
16 allowed unless the purchaser or lessee signs a certificate
17 stating that the item to be exempted is for the exclusive use
18 designated herein. Also exempt are cellophane wrappers, glue
19 for tin and glass (apiarists), mailing cases for honey,
20 shipping cases, window cartons, and baling wire and twine used
21 for baling hay, when used by a farmer to contain, produce, or
22 process an agricultural commodity.
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28 And the title is amended as follows:
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Florida Senate - 2004 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 16-A
Barcode 885676
1 amending s. 212.08, F.S.; exempting from
2 taxation generators used on farms, in addition
3 to the tax exemption provided for generators
4 used on poultry farms; exempting from taxation
5 liquefied petroleum gas and other fuel used to
6 heat a structure in which horticultural
7 products are grown, in addition to the tax
8 exemption provided for gas and fuel used to
9 heat a structure in which started pullets or
10 broilers are raised;
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