Amendment
Bill No. 0014C
Amendment No. 016973
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative(s) Bean offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with title amendment)
4     Remove everything after the enacting clause and insert:
5     Section 1.  Subsection (12) of section 1004.445, Florida
6Statutes, is amended to read:
7     1004.445  Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr., Alzheimer's Center and
8Research Institute.--
9     (12)  Beginning in fiscal year 2007-2008 2006-2007, the sum
10of $7.5 $15 million is appropriated annually from recurring
11funds in the General Revenue Fund to the Grants and Donations
12Trust Fund within the Department of Elderly Affairs for the
13Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr., Alzheimer's Center and Research Institute
14at the University of South Florida for the purposes as provided
15under paragraph (6)(a), conducting and supporting research,
16providing institutional research grants and investigator-
17initiated research grants, developing and operating integrated
18data projects, and providing assistance to statutorily
19designated memory disorder clinics as provided under s. 430.502.
20Not less than 80 percent of the appropriated funds shall be
21expended for these purposes, and not less than 20 percent of the
22appropriated funds shall be expended for peer-reviewed
23investigator-initiated research grants.
24     Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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28     Remove the entire title and insert:
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A bill to be entitled
30An act relating to Alzheimer's disease research; amending
31s. 1004.445, F.S.; providing a reduced appropriation to
32the Johnnie B. Byrd, Sr., Alzheimer's Center and Research
33Institute; providing an effective date.


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