| 1 | Representative Pickens offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between line 102-103, insert: |
| 5 | Section 3. Subsection (6) is added to section 196.101, |
| 6 | Florida Statutes, to read: |
| 7 | 196.101 Exemption for totally and permanently disabled |
| 8 | persons.-- |
| 9 | (6) An optometrist licensed pursuant to chapter 463 may |
| 10 | certify a person to be totally and permanently disabled as a |
| 11 | result of legal blindness only by issuing a certification in |
| 12 | accordance with subsection (5). Certification of such total and |
| 13 | permanent disability due to blindness by two optometrists may be |
| 14 | deemed to meet the requirements of subsection (3). |
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| 17 | Remove line 20 and insert: |
| 18 | retroactive application to certain property; amending s. |
| 19 | 196.101, F.S.; requiring certain licensed optometrists |
| 20 | certifying a person to be totally and permanently disabled |
| 21 | as a result of legal blindness to issue a physician's |
| 22 | certification of total and permanent disability; providing |
| 23 | that such certification by two optometrists qualifies as |
| 24 | prima facie evidence of the fact that the person being |
| 25 | certified is exempt from certain taxes; providing an |