Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 1306
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11  The Committee on Government Efficiency Appropriations
12  (Haridopolos) recommended the following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 1, line 24, through
16            page 2, line 10, delete those lines
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18  and insert:  
19         Section 1.  Subsections (7) and (9) of section
20  288.1162, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
21         288.1162  Professional sports franchises; spring
22  training franchises; duties.--
23         (7)(a)  The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic
24  Development shall notify the Department of Revenue of any
25  facility certified as a facility for a new professional sports
26  franchise or a facility for a retained professional sports
27  franchise or as a facility for a retained spring training
28  franchise. The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic
29  Development shall certify no more than nine eight facilities
30  as facilities for a new professional sports franchise or as
31  facilities for a retained professional sports franchise and
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Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 1306 Barcode 710680 1 shall certify at least five as facilities for retained spring 2 training franchises, including in such total any facilities 3 certified by the Department of Commerce before July 1, 1996. 4 The office may make no more than one certification for any 5 facility. The office may not certify funding for less than 6 the requested amount to any applicant certified as a facility 7 for a retained spring training franchise. 8 (b) Certification of an applicant under this section 9 for the eighth certification for a facility for a new 10 professional sports franchise or for a facility for a retained 11 professional sports franchise shall be for an applicant for 12 which the franchise that serves as the basis of the 13 certification is a member of the National Basketball 14 Association, has been located within this state since 1987, 15 and has not been previously certified. This paragraph is 16 repealed on July 1, 2010. 17 18 19 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 20 And the title is amended as follows: 21 On page 1, line 8, after the semicolon, 22 23 insert: 24 providing for the eighth certification; 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 8:11 AM 04/26/05 s1306c1c-ge26-ttt