Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 836
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                              LEGISLATIVE ACTION                        
                    Senate             .             House              
                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/14/2009           .                                
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       The Policy and Steering Committee on Ways and Means (Lawson)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    4         Delete lines 2045 - 2068
    5  and insert:
    6         (4)(7)(a) Any quarter horse racing permitholder operating
    7  under a valid permit issued by the division is authorized to
    8  substitute races of other breeds of horses, except
    9  thoroughbreds, which are, respectively, registered with the
   10  American Paint Horse Association, Appaloosa Horse Club, Arabian
   11  Horse Registry of America, Palomino Horse Breeders of America,
   12  or United States Trotting Association, Florida Cracker Horse
   13  Association, or for no more than 50 percent of the quarter horse
   14  races daily, and may substitute races of thoroughbreds
   15  registered with the Jockey Club for no more than 50 percent of
   16  the quarter horse races conducted by the permitholder during the
   17  year daily with the written consent of all greyhound, harness,
   18  and thoroughbred permitholders whose pari-mutuel facilities are
   19  located within 50 air miles of such quarter horse racing
   20  permitholder’s pari-mutuel facility.
   21         (b) Any permittee operating within an area of 50 air miles
   22  of a licensed thoroughbred track may not substitute thoroughbred
   23  races under this section while a thoroughbred horse race meet is
   24  in progress within that 50 miles. Any permittee operating within
   25  an area of 125 air miles of a licensed thoroughbred track may
   26  not substitute live thoroughbred races under this section while
   27  a thoroughbred permittee who pays taxes under s. 550.09515(2)(a)
   28  is conducting a thoroughbred meet within that 125 miles. These
   29  mileage restrictions do not apply to any permittee that holds a
   30  nonwagering permit issued pursuant to s. 550.505.
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   32  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   33         And the title is amended as follows:
   34         Delete line 121
   35  and insert:
   36  application provisions; revising the authority of a quarter
   37  horse racing permitholder to substitute horse breeds; amendings
   38  s. 550.3355, F.S,;