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CHAMBER ACTION
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11 Senators Constantine, Pruitt, and Carlton moved the following
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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16 page 5, line 24, delete those lines
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19 Section 3. Subsections (3), (14), and (15) of section
20 202.11, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
21 202.11 Definitions.--As used in this chapter:
22 (3) "Communications services" means the transmission,
23 conveyance, or routing of voice, data, audio, video, or any
24 other information or signals, including cable services, to a
25 point, or between or among points, by or through any
26 electronic, radio, satellite, cable, optical, microwave, or
27 other medium or method now in existence or hereafter devised,
28 regardless of the protocol used for such transmission or
29 conveyance. The term includes such transmission, conveyance,
30 or routing in which computer processing applications are used
31 to act on the form, code, or protocol of the content for
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1 purposes of transmission, conveyance, or routing without
2 regard to whether such service is referred to as
3 voice-over-Internet-protocol services or is classified by the
4 Federal Communications Commission as enhanced or value-added.
5 The term does not include:
6 (a) Information services.
7 (b) Installation or maintenance of wiring or equipment
8 on a customer's premises.
9 (c) The sale or rental of tangible personal property.
10 (d) The sale of advertising, including, but not
11 limited to, directory advertising.
12 (e) Bad check charges.
13 (f) Late payment charges.
14 (g) Billing and collection services.
15 (h) Internet access service, electronic mail service,
16 electronic bulletin board service, or similar on-line computer
17 services.
18 (14) "Sales price" means the total amount charged in
19 money or other consideration by a dealer for the sale of the
20 right or privilege of using communications services in this
21 state, including any property or other services that are part
22 of the sale. The sales price of communications services shall
23 not be reduced by any separately identified components of the
24 charge that constitute expenses of the dealer, including, but
25 not limited to, sales taxes on goods or services purchased by
26 the dealer, property taxes, taxes measured by net income, and
27 universal-service fund fees.
28 (a) The sales price of communications services shall
29 include, whether or not separately stated, charges for any of
30 the following:
31 1. The connection, movement, change, or termination of
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1 communications services.
2 2. The detailed billing of communications services.
3 3. The sale of directory listings in connection with a
4 communications service.
5 4. Central office and custom calling features.
6 5. Voice mail and other messaging service.
7 6. Directory assistance.
8 7. The service of sending or receiving a document
9 commonly referred to as a facsimile or "fax," except when
10 performed during the course of providing professional or
11 advertising services.
12 (b) The sales price of communications services does
13 not include charges for any of the following:
14 1. Any excise tax, sales tax, or similar tax levied by
15 the United States or any state or local government on the
16 purchase, sale, use, or consumption of any communications
17 service, including, but not limited to, any tax imposed under
18 this chapter or chapter 203 which is permitted or required to
19 be added to the sales price of such service, if the tax is
20 stated separately.
21 2. Any fee or assessment levied by the United States
22 or any state or local government, including, but not limited
23 to, regulatory fees and emergency telephone surcharges, which
24 is required to be added to the price of such service if the
25 fee or assessment is separately stated.
26 3. Communications services paid for by inserting coins
27 into coin-operated communications devices available to the
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29 4. The sale or recharge of a prepaid calling
30 arrangement.
31 5. The provision of air-to-ground communications
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1 services, defined as a radio service provided to purchasers
2 while on board an aircraft.
3 6. A dealer's internal use of communications services
4 in connection with its business of providing communications
5 services.
6 7. Charges for property or other services that are not
7 part of the sale of communications services, if such charges
8 are stated separately from the charges for communications
9 services.
10 8. To the extent required by federal law, charges for
11 Internet access services which are not separately itemized on
12 a customer's bill, but which can be reasonably identified from
13 the selling dealer's books and records kept in the regular
14 course of business. The dealer may support the allocation of
15 charges with books and records kept in the regular course of
16 business covering the dealer's entire service area, including
17 territories outside this state.
18 (15) "Service address" means:
19 (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section:,
20 1. The location of the communications equipment from
21 which communications services originate or at which
22 communications services are received by the customer;.
23 2. In the case of a communications service paid
24 through a credit or payment mechanism that does not relate to
25 a service address, such as a bank, travel, debit, or credit
26 card, and in the case of third-number and calling-card calls,
27 the term "service address" means service address is the
28 address of the central office, as determined by the area code
29 and the first three digits of the seven-digit originating
30 telephone number; or.
31 3. If the location of the equipment described in
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1 subparagraph 1. is not known and subparagraph 2. is
2 inapplicable, the term "service address" means the location of
3 the customer's primary use of the communications service. For
4 purposes of this subparagraph, the location of the customer's
5 primary use of a communications service is the residential
6 street address or the business street address of the customer.
7 (b) In the case of cable services and direct-to-home
8 satellite services, the location where the customer receives
9 the services in this state.
10 (c) In the case of mobile communications services, the
11 customer's place of primary use.
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15 And the title is amended as follows:
16 On page 1, lines 12-15, delete those lines,
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19 redefining the term "communications services";
20 providing that the definition of sales price
21 for purposes of communication services tax does
22 not include specified charges for Internet
23 access services; defining the term "service
24 address" when the location of the equipment is
25 unknown or under other circumstances; amending
26 s. 202.26, F.S.;
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