Florida Senate - 2007                      COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
    Bill No. CS for CS for CS for SB 2804
                        Barcode 591068
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11  The Committee on Transportation and Economic Development
12  Appropriations (Diaz de la Portilla) recommended the following
13  amendment:
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15         Senate Amendment (with title amendment) 
16         On page 26, between lines 30 and 31,
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19         Section 18.  Subsection (4) of section 338.231, Florida
20  Statutes, is amended to read:
21         338.231  Turnpike tolls, fixing; pledge of tolls and
22  other revenues.--The department shall at all times fix,
23  adjust, charge, and collect such tolls for the use of the
24  turnpike system as are required in order to provide a fund
25  sufficient with other revenues of the turnpike system to pay
26  the cost of maintaining, improving, repairing, and operating
27  such turnpike system; to pay the principal of and interest on
28  all bonds issued to finance or refinance any portion of the
29  turnpike system as the same become due and payable; and to
30  create reserves for all such purposes.
31         (4)  For the period July 1, 1998, through June 30, 2017
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Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT Bill No. CS for CS for CS for SB 2804 Barcode 591068 1 2007, the department shall, to the maximum extent feasible, 2 program sufficient funds in the tentative work program such 3 that the percentage of turnpike toll and bond financed 4 commitments in Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach 5 County as compared to total turnpike toll and bond financed 6 commitments shall be at least 90 percent of the share of net 7 toll collections attributable to users of the turnpike system 8 in Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County as 9 compared to total net toll collections attributable to users 10 of the turnpike system. The requirements of this subsection do 11 not apply when the application of such requirements would 12 violate any covenant established in a resolution or trust 13 indenture relating to the issuance of turnpike bonds. 14 15 (Redesignate subsequent sections.) 16 17 18 ================ T I T L E A M E N D M E N T =============== 19 And the title is amended as follows: 20 On page 4, line 3, after the semicolon, 21 22 insert: 23 amending s. 338.213, F.S.; extending a period 24 in which a specified percentage of toll and 25 bond financed commitments in Dade, Broward, and 26 Palm Beach Counties must be a specific 27 percentage of toll collections from turnpike 28 usage in those counties; 29 30 31 2 7:39 AM 04/24/07 s2804c3c-ta36-k0a