Florida Senate - 2005                        SENATOR AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2542, 1st Eng.
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11  Senator Smith moved the following amendment:
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13         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
14         On page 82, between lines 23 and 24,
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17         Section 44.  Effective July 1, 2006, subsection (3) of
18  section 218.245, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
19         218.245  Revenue sharing; apportionment.--
20         (3)  Revenues attributed to the increase in
21  distribution to the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund for
22  Municipalities pursuant to s. 212.20(6)(d)6. from 1.0715
23  percent to 1.3409 percent provided in chapter 2003-402, Laws
24  of Florida, shall be distributed to each eligible municipality
25  and any unit of local government which is consolidated as
26  provided by s. 9, Art. VIII of the State Constitution of 1885,
27  as preserved by s. 6(e), Art. VIII, 1968 revised constitution,
28  as follows: each eligible local government's allocation shall
29  be based on the amount it received from the half-cent sales
30  tax under s. 218.61 in the prior state fiscal year divided by
31  the total receipts under s. 218.61 in the prior state fiscal
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Florida Senate - 2005 SENATOR AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for SB 2542, 1st Eng. Barcode 372508 1 year for all eligible local governments ; provided, however, 2 for the purpose of calculating this distribution, the amount 3 received from the half-cent sales tax under s. 218.61 in the 4 prior state fiscal year by a unit of local government which is 5 consolidated as provided by s. 9, Art. VIII of the State 6 Constitution of 1885, as amended, and as preserved by s. 6(e), 7 Art. VIII, of the Constitution as revised in 1968, shall be 8 reduced by 50 percent for such local government and for the 9 total receipts. For eligible municipalities that began 10 participating in the allocation of half-cent sales tax under 11 s. 218.61 in the previous state fiscal year, their annual 12 receipts shall be calculated by dividing their actual receipts 13 by the number of months they participated, and the result 14 multiplied by 12. 15 16 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 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 9, line 22, after the semicolon, 22 23 insert: amending s. 218.245, F.S.; revising the requirements 24 for revenue sharing with respect to certain local governments; 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2 3:17 PM 05/05/05 s2542.14ju.p0p