Florida Senate - 2007                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. PCS (174486) for SB 1900
                        Barcode 295240
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11  The Committee on Transportation (Baker) recommended the
12  following amendment:
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14         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments) 
15         On page 11, after line 31,
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17  and insert:  (64)  TREES ARE COOL LICENSE PLATES.--
18         (a)  The department shall develop a Trees Are Cool
19  license plate as provided in this section. The word "Florida"
20  must appear at the top of the plate, and the words "Trees Are
21  Cool" must appear at the bottom of the plate.
22         (b)  The annual use fees shall be distributed to the
23  Florida Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture,
24  Inc., which shall retain the initial revenues from the sale of
25  such plates until all startup costs for developing and
26  establishing the plate have been recovered not to exceed
27  $60,000. Thereafter, the proceeds of the annual use fee shall
28  be used in the following manner:
29           1.  Twenty percent of the funds may be used by the
30  Florida Chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture,
31  Inc., for continuing promotion and marketing of the license
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Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. PCS (174486) for SB 1900 Barcode 295240 1 plate and concept. Five percent of the funds received by the 2 Florida Society of Arboriculture, Inc., may be used for 3 administrative costs directly associated with the operations 4 of the Florida Chapter of the International Society of 5 Arboriculture, Inc., with respect to the management of the 6 Trees Are Cool license plate program. 7 2. Seventy-five percent of the funds must be used to 8 fulfill the mission of the Florida Chapter of the 9 International Society of Arboriculture, Inc., which is to 10 provide education and training statewide with respect to tree 11 care and tree safety. 12 13 14 ==== D I R E C T O R Y C L A U S E A M E N D M E N T ==== 15 And the directory clause is amended as follows: 16 On page 6, delete that line, 17 18 and insert:(61), (62), (63), and (64), are added to that 19 section, to read: 20 21 22 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 23 And the title is amended as follows: 24 On page 2, line 17, after the semicolon 25 26 insert: 27 creating a Trees Are Cool license plate; 28 providing for the distribution of annual use 29 fees received from the sale of such plate; 30 providing for construction of the act; 31 2 10:59 AM 03/26/07 s1900.tr20.bag