Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. SB 1022
                        Barcode 663912
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11  The Committee on Community Affairs (Geller) recommended the
12  following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         Delete everything after the enacting clause
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17  and insert:  
18         Section 1.  Subsections (1) and (4) of section
19  205.0535, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
20         205.0535  Reclassification and rate structure
21  revisions.--
22         (1)  By October 1, 2006 1995, any municipality that has
23  adopted by ordinance an occupational license tax after October
24  1, 1995, or county may, by ordinance, reclassify businesses,
25  professions, and occupations and may establish new rate
26  structures, if the conditions specified in subsections (2) and
27  (3) are met.  A person who is engaged in the business of
28  providing local exchange telephone service or a pay telephone
29  service in a municipality or in the unincorporated area of a
30  county and who pays the occupational license tax under the
31  category designated for telephone companies or a pay telephone
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Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. SB 1022 Barcode 663912 1 service provider certified pursuant to s. 364.3375 is deemed 2 to have but one place of business or business location in each 3 municipality or unincorporated area of a county. Pay telephone 4 service providers may not be assessed an occupational license 5 tax on a per-instrument basis. 6 (4) After the conditions specified in subsections (2) 7 and (3) are met, municipalities and counties may, every other 8 year thereafter, increase by ordinance the rates of local 9 occupational license taxes by up to 5 percent. The increase, 10 however, may not be enacted by less than a majority plus one 11 vote of the governing body. Nothing in this chapter shall be 12 construed to prohibit a municipality or county from decreasing 13 or repealing any license tax authorized under this chapter. 14 Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a 15 law. 16 17 18 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 19 And the title is amended as follows: 20 Delete everything before the enacting clause 21 22 and insert: 23 A bill to be entitled 24 An act relating to local occupational license 25 taxes; amending s. 205.0535, F.S.; updating 26 provisions authorizing reclassification and new 27 rate structure revisions to local occupational 28 license taxes by ordinance; deleting counties 29 from such authorization provisions; providing 30 construction relating to decreasing or 31 repealing such taxes; providing an effective 2 2:06 PM 04/04/05 s1022d-ca31-ta1
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