Amendment
Bill No. 1325
Amendment No. 682091
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Simmons offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with title amendment)
4Between lines 416 and 417 insert:
5     Section 3.  Subsection (7) of section 288.1162, Florida
6Statutes, is amended to read:
7     288.1162  Professional sports franchises; spring training
8franchises; duties.--
9     (7)(a)  The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic
10Development shall notify the Department of Revenue of any
11facility certified as a facility for a new professional sports
12franchise or a facility for a retained professional sports
13franchise or as a facility for a retained spring training
14franchise. The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic
15Development shall certify no more than eight facilities as
16facilities for a new professional sports franchise or as
17facilities for a retained professional sports franchise and
18shall certify at least five as facilities for retained spring
19training franchises, including in such total any facilities
20certified by the Department of Commerce before July 1, 1996. The
21office may make no more than one certification for any facility.
22The office may not certify funding for less than the requested
23amount to any applicant certified as a facility for a retained
24spring training franchise.
25     (b)  Certification of an applicant under this section for
26the eighth certification for a facility for a new professional
27sports franchise or for a facility for a retained professional
28sports franchise shall be for an applicant for which the
29franchise that serves as the basis of the certification is a
30member of the National Basketball Association, has been located
31within the state since 1987, and has not been previously
32certified. This paragraph shall be repealed on July 1, 2010.
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35     Remove line 28 and insert:
36severability; amending s. 288.1162, F.S.; specifying
37criteria for certification for remaining available
38certification slot for professional sports franchises;
39providing an effective date.


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