Florida Senate - 2009 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. SB 392
Barcode 244834
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
04/15/2009 .
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The Committee on Finance and Tax (Pruitt) recommended the
following:
1 Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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3 Between lines 49 and 50
4 insert:
5 (5) AUTHORIZED USES OF REVENUE.—
6 (a) All tax revenues received pursuant to this section by a
7 county imposing the tourist development tax shall be used by
8 that county for the following purposes only:
9 1. To acquire, construct, extend, enlarge, remodel, repair,
10 improve, maintain, operate, or promote one or more publicly
11 owned and operated convention centers, sports stadiums, sports
12 arenas, coliseums, or auditoriums, or museums that are publicly
13 owned and operated or owned and operated by not-for-profit
14 organizations and open to the public, or publicly owned
15 convention center hotels and appurtenant facilities, such as
16 walkways and meeting facilities, within the boundaries of the
17 county or subcounty special taxing district in which the tax is
18 levied. Tax revenues received pursuant to this section may also
19 be used for promotion of zoological parks that are publicly
20 owned and operated or owned and operated by not-for-profit
21 organizations and open to the public. However, these purposes
22 may be implemented through service contracts and leases with
23 lessees with sufficient expertise or financial capability to
24 operate such facilities;
25 2. To promote and advertise tourism in the State of Florida
26 and nationally and internationally; however, if tax revenues are
27 expended for an activity, service, venue, or event, the
28 activity, service, venue, or event shall have as one of its main
29 purposes the attraction of tourists as evidenced by the
30 promotion of the activity, service, venue, or event to tourists;
31 3. To fund convention bureaus, tourist bureaus, tourist
32 information centers, and news bureaus as county agencies or by
33 contract with the chambers of commerce or similar associations
34 in the county, which may include any indirect administrative
35 costs for services performed by the county on behalf of the
36 promotion agency; or
37 4. To finance beach park facilities or beach improvement,
38 maintenance, renourishment, restoration, and erosion control,
39 including shoreline protection, enhancement, cleanup, or
40 restoration of inland lakes and rivers to which there is public
41 access as those uses relate to the physical preservation of the
42 beach, shoreline, or inland lake or river. However, any funds
43 identified by a county as the local matching source for beach
44 renourishment, restoration, or erosion control projects included
45 in the long-range budget plan of the state’s Beach Management
46 Plan, pursuant to s. 161.091, or funds contractually obligated
47 by a county in the financial plan for a federally authorized
48 shore protection project may not be used or loaned for any other
49 purpose. In counties of less than 100,000 population, no more
50 than 10 percent of the revenues from the tourist development tax
51 may be used for beach park facilities.
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54 And the directory clause is amended as follows:
55 Delete lines 11 - 12
56 and insert:
57 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) and paragraph
58 (a) of subsection (5) of section 125.0104, Florida Statutes, are
59 amended to read:
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62 And the title is amended as follows:
63 Delete line 6
64 and insert:
65 timeshare resort products; expanding the use of
66 revenues derived from the tourist development tax to
67 include publicly owned convention center hotels and
68 their facilities; providing application and