Florida Senate - 2005                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for SB 528
                        Barcode 293390
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11  The Committee on Education Appropriations (Wise) recommended
12  the following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
15         On page 7, between lines 15 and 16,
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17  insert:  
18         (9)(a)  Notwithstanding any provision of this section,
19  if an Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair is vacant for more than 12
20  months, the donor may request that the gift be returned to the
21  donor and the gift shall be returned to the donor immediately
22  or the donor may request that the gift be transferred to
23  another designated university that expresses a willingness to
24  immediately employ a person to occupy the chair and the gift
25  shall be transferred to that designated university.
26         (b)  If the donor transfers the gift to another
27  university eligible to participate in the program, the state
28  matching funds previously matched to the donation must be
29  transferred to the university receiving the transferred gift.
30         (c)  If the university from which the gift and matching
31  funds are transferred has entered into a contract with a
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Florida Senate - 2005 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for SB 528 Barcode 293390 1 person to serve as the eminent scholar but the person has not 2 begun to serve as the employed eminent scholar, then the 3 contract, and the funds associated with it, must be delivered 4 to the designated university to which the gift and matching 5 funds are transferred. In all other circumstances, the state 6 matching funds received on a returned or transferred gift 7 shall revert to General Revenue. 8 (d) For the purposes of this subsection, the term 9 "vacant" means that no person has been employed and serving 10 full time as the eminent scholar or that the university has 11 not designated an eminent scholar chair for a specific purpose 12 consistent with the intent of the donor. 13 14 15 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 16 And the title is amended as follows: 17 On page 1, line 22, after the semicolon, 18 19 insert: 20 providing that, if an Eminent Scholar Endowed 21 Chair is vacant for more than 12 months, the 22 donor may request that the gift be returned to 23 the donor or the donor may request that the 24 gift be transferred to another designated 25 university; requiring that the state matching 26 funds previously matched to the donation must 27 be transferred to the university receiving the 28 transferred gift; defining the term "vacant"; 29 30 31 2 8:29 AM 04/20/05 s0528.ea05.002