Senate Bill sb0604

    Florida Senate - 2006                                  SCR 604

    By Senator Geller





    31-267-06

  1                   Senate Concurrent Resolution

  2         A concurrent resolution renumbering current

  3         Joint Rule 8 and creating a new Joint Rule 8 of

  4         the Joint Rules of the Legislature relating to

  5         duties of the Joint Legislative Sales and Use

  6         Tax Exemption Review Committee.

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  8  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida, the

  9  House of Representatives Concurring:

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11         That current Joint Rule 8 of the Joint Rules of the

12  Legislature is renumbered as Joint Rule 9 and a new Joint Rule

13  8 is created to read:

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15                         JOINT RULE EIGHT

16          JOINT LEGISLATIVE SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION

17                         REVIEW COMMITTEE

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19  8.1--Filing and Introduction of Committee Bills

20         At the regular session following submission of each

21  annual report to the President of the Senate and the Speaker

22  of the House of Representatives recommending the modification

23  or repeal of exemptions from the general state sales and use

24  tax, the ranking members of each house of the Legislature on

25  the Joint Legislative Sales and Use Tax Exemption Review

26  Committee shall sponsor and file for introduction in their

27  respective houses of the Legislature bills presenting for

28  modification or repeal those exemptions from the general state

29  sales and use tax which were subject to the review and

30  recommendations of the committee in the report submitted

31  immediately prior to the session in which introduced. However,

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 1  if either such member voted against the recommendation of the

 2  committee, another member of the committee from that house of

 3  the Legislature who voted for the recommendation of the

 4  committee shall sponsor the bill in that house of the

 5  Legislature. Each bill filed under this rule shall be exempt

 6  from any filing limits applicable in either house of the

 7  Legislature and shall be limited to a single exemption and for

 8  that purpose only. Upon introduction, each bill filed under

 9  this rule shall be placed on the calendar of the respective

10  house of the Legislature without reference to any committee

11  and must be submitted to a vote of the members of the house of

12  the Legislature in which introduced no later than the eighth

13  week of the session in which introduced, unless the substance

14  of the bill has already been voted on by the members of the

15  other house of the Legislature in another bill during that

16  session and defeated. In addition, each bill filed under this

17  rule which receives a majority vote in the house of the

18  Legislature in which introduced must be submitted to a vote of

19  the members of the other house of the Legislature during that

20  session, unless the substance of the bill has already been

21  voted on by the members of the other house of the Legislature

22  in another bill during that session and defeated.

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24  8.2--Meetings to Consider Proposed Bills; Notice

25         The committee may hold meetings to consider bills

26  proposing the modification or repeal of an exemption from the

27  general state sales and use tax under this rule. Not less than

28  7 days prior to a meeting of the committee to consider such

29  proposed bills, a notice of the meeting, stating the proposed

30  bills to be considered and the date, time, and place of the

31  meeting, shall be filed with the Secretary of the Senate when

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 1  the chair is a Senator or with the Clerk of the House of

 2  Representatives when the chair is a Representative. The

 3  Secretary or the Clerk shall distribute notice to the

 4  Legislature and the public, consistent with the rules and

 5  policies of their respective houses.

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 7  8.3--Proceedings Governing Consideration of Proposed Bills

 8         All proceedings of the committee at which a bill

 9  proposing the modification or repeal of an exemption from the

10  general state sales and use tax under this rule is considered

11  shall be governed by the rules of the Senate when the chair is

12  a Senator and by the rules of the House of Representatives

13  when the chair is a Representative, except as otherwise

14  provided in this rule.

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16                      JOINT RULE NINE EIGHT

17               CONTINUING EXISTENCE OF JOINT RULES

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19  9.1 8.1--Continuing Existence of Joint Rules

20         All joint rules adopted by concurrent resolution, and

21  amendments thereto, shall continue in effect from session to

22  session or Legislature to Legislature until repealed by

23  concurrent resolution.

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