((LATE FILED FOR: 4/22/2008 5:00:00 PM))Amendment
Bill No. CS/CS/HB 1459
Amendment No. 596779
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Zapata offered the following:
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3     Substitute Amendment for Amendment (736621)
4     Remove line(s) 47-57 and insert:
5     (5)(a)  Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (3),
6no less than 50 percent of the revenues collected in the Housing
7Assistance Loan Trust Fund shall be used to provide
8homeownership assistance for low-income and moderate-income
9families.  At least 10 percent of the funds specified in this
10paragraph shall be used for down payment assistance.  
11     (b)  For purposes of this subsection, the term
12"homeownership assistance" means assisting low-income and
13moderate-income families in purchasing a home as their primary
14residence, including, but not limited to, reducing the cost of
15the home with below-market construction financing, the amount of
16down payment and closing costs paid by the borrower, or the
17mortgage payment to an affordable amount for the purchaser or
18using any other financial assistance measure set forth in s.
19420.5088.
20     (6)  Rehabilitation of housing owned by a recipient
21government shall only be authorized after an affirmative vote of
22the governing body that no other sources of funds are available.
23     (7)(a)  The governing body of each county as defined in s.
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