| 1 | Representative Simmons offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 416 and 417 insert: |
| 5 | Section 3. Subsection (7) of section 288.1162, Florida |
| 6 | Statutes, is amended to read: |
| 7 | 288.1162 Professional sports franchises; spring training |
| 8 | franchises; duties.-- |
| 9 | (7)(a) The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic |
| 10 | Development shall notify the Department of Revenue of any |
| 11 | facility certified as a facility for a new professional sports |
| 12 | franchise or a facility for a retained professional sports |
| 13 | franchise or as a facility for a retained spring training |
| 14 | franchise. The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic |
| 15 | Development shall certify no more than eight facilities as |
| 16 | facilities for a new professional sports franchise or as |
| 17 | facilities for a retained professional sports franchise and |
| 18 | shall certify at least five as facilities for retained spring |
| 19 | training franchises, including in such total any facilities |
| 20 | certified by the Department of Commerce before July 1, 1996. The |
| 21 | office may make no more than one certification for any facility. |
| 22 | The office may not certify funding for less than the requested |
| 23 | amount to any applicant certified as a facility for a retained |
| 24 | spring training franchise. |
| 25 | (b) Certification of an applicant under this section for |
| 26 | the eighth certification for a facility for a new professional |
| 27 | sports franchise or for a facility for a retained professional |
| 28 | sports franchise shall be for an applicant for which the |
| 29 | franchise that serves as the basis of the certification is a |
| 30 | member of the National Basketball Association, has been located |
| 31 | within the state since 1987, and has not been previously |
| 32 | certified. This paragraph shall be repealed on July 1, 2010. |
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| 35 | Remove line 28 and insert: |
| 36 | severability; amending s. 288.1162, F.S.; specifying |
| 37 | criteria for certification for remaining available |
| 38 | certification slot for professional sports franchises; |
| 39 | providing an effective date. |