Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1958
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/18/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Judiciary (Gelber) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 23 - 32
    4  and insert:
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    6         Section 1. Subsection (4) of section 736.0103, Florida
    7  Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         736.0103 Definitions.—Unless the context otherwise
    9  requires, in this code:
   10         (4) “Beneficiary” means a person who:
   11         (a) has a present or future beneficial interest in a trust,
   12  vested or contingent,; or
   13         (b) a person who holds a power of appointment over trust
   14  property in a capacity other than that of trustee. An interest
   15  as a permissible appointee of a power of appointment, held by a
   16  person in a capacity other than that of trustee, is not a
   17  beneficial interest for purposes of this subsection. Upon an
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   20         And the title is amended as follows:
   21         Delete lines 3 - 4
   22  and insert:
   23  736.0103, F.S.; redefining the term “beneficiary” to include a
   24  person having certain beneficial interests; providing