Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 2072 & 1714
                        Barcode 472382
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11  Senator Constantine moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 12, lines 4 through 9, delete those lines
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16  and insert:  
17         Section 2.  If any provision of section 1 of this act
18  or its application to any person or circumstance is held
19  invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or
20  applications of the act which can be given effect without the
21  invalid provision or application, and to this end the
22  provisions of this act are severable.
23         Section 3.  Subsection (7) of section 288.1162, Florida
24  Statutes, is amended to read:
25         288.1162  Professional sports franchises; spring
26  training franchises; duties.--
27         (7)(a)  The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic
28  Development shall notify the Department of Revenue of any
29  facility certified as a facility for a new professional sports
30  franchise or a facility for a retained professional sports
31  franchise or as a facility for a retained spring training
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Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 2072 & 1714 Barcode 472382 1 franchise. The Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic 2 Development shall certify no more than eight facilities as 3 facilities for a new professional sports franchise or as 4 facilities for a retained professional sports franchise and 5 shall certify at least five as facilities for retained spring 6 training franchises, including in such total any facilities 7 certified by the Department of Commerce before July 1, 1996. 8 The office may make no more than one certification for any 9 facility. The office may not certify funding for less than 10 the requested amount to any applicant certified as a facility 11 for a retained spring training franchise. 12 (b) Certification of an applicant under this section 13 for the eighth certification for a facility for a new 14 professional sports franchise or for a facility for a retained 15 professional sports franchise shall be for an applicant for 16 which the franchise that serves as the basis of the 17 certification is a member of the National Basketball 18 Association, has been located within this state since 1987, 19 and has not been previously certified. This paragraph expires 20 July 1, 2010. 21 22 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 23 24 25 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 26 And the title is amended as follows: 27 On page 2, line 4, after the semicolon, 28 29 insert: 30 amending s. 288.1162, F.S.; providing criteria 31 for certification of an applicant for the 2 1:07 PM 05/03/05 s2072c2c-22-z9q
Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for SB's 2072 & 1714 Barcode 472382 1 eighth certification for a specified 2 professional sports franchise by the Office of 3 Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development; 4 providing for expiration of the certification; 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 3 1:07 PM 05/03/05 s2072c2c-22-z9q