Florida Senate - 2011 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
Bill No. CS for SB 1346
Barcode 148444
LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
Comm: RCS .
04/05/2011 .
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The Committee on Children, Families, and Elder Affairs (Detert)
recommended the following:
1 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Between lines 1356 and 1357
4 insert:
5 Section 38. Section 288.386, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
6 Section 39. Section 288.9618, Florida Statutes, is
7 repealed.
8 Section 40. Section 288.982, Florida Statutes, is repealed.
9 Section 41. Section 409.946, Florida Statute, is repealed.
10 Section 42. Paragraphs (c), (d), and (e) of subsection (2)
11 of section 288.012, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
12 288.012 State of Florida foreign offices.—The Legislature
13 finds that the expansion of international trade and tourism is
14 vital to the overall health and growth of the economy of this
15 state. This expansion is hampered by the lack of technical and
16 business assistance, financial assistance, and information
17 services for businesses in this state. The Legislature finds
18 that these businesses could be assisted by providing these
19 services at State of Florida foreign offices. The Legislature
20 further finds that the accessibility and provision of services
21 at these offices can be enhanced through cooperative agreements
22 or strategic alliances between state entities, local entities,
23 foreign entities, and private businesses.
24 (2) Each foreign office shall have in place an operational
25 plan approved by the participating boards or other governing
26 authority, a copy of which shall be provided to the Office of
27 Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development. These operating plans
28 shall be reviewed and updated each fiscal year and shall
29 include, at a minimum, the following:
30 (c) Provisions for access to information for Florida
31 businesses related to through the Florida Trade Data Center.
32 Each foreign office shall obtain and forward trade leads and
33 inquiries to the center on a regular basis.
34 (d) Identification of new and emerging market opportunities
35 for Florida businesses. Each foreign office shall provide the
36 Florida Trade Data Center with a compilation of foreign buyers
37 and importers in industry sector priority areas on an annual
38 basis. In return, the Florida Trade Data Center shall make
39 available to each foreign office, and to Enterprise Florida,
40 Inc., the Florida Commission on Tourism, the Florida Ports
41 Council, the Department of State, the Department of Citrus, and
42 the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, trade
43 industry, commodity, and opportunity information. This
44 information shall be provided to such offices and entities
45 either free of charge or on a fee basis with fees set only to
46 recover the costs of providing the information.
47 (e) Provision of access for Florida businesses to the
48 services of the Florida Trade Data Center, international trade
49 assistance services provided by state and local entities,
50 seaport and airport information, and other services identified
51 by the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development.
52 Section 43. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section
53 311.07, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
54 311.07 Florida seaport transportation and economic
55 development funding.—
56 (3)(a) Program funds shall be used to fund approved
57 projects on a 50-50 matching basis with any of the deepwater
58 ports, as listed in s. 403.021(9)(b), which is governed by a
59 public body or any other deepwater port which is governed by a
60 public body and which complies with the water quality provisions
61 of s. 403.061, the comprehensive master plan requirements of s.
62 163.3178(2)(k), and the local financial management and reporting
63 provisions of part III of chapter 218. However, program funds
64 used to fund projects that involve the rehabilitation of
65 wharves, docks, berths, bulkheads, or similar structures shall
66 require a 25-percent match of funds. Program funds also may be
67 used by the Seaport Transportation and Economic Development
68 Council to develop with the Florida Trade Data Center such trade
69 data information products which will assist Florida’s seaports
70 and international trade.
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74 And the title is amended as follows:
75 Delete line 79
76 and insert:
77 asbestos surveyors; repealing s. 288.386, F.S.,
78 relating to the Florida-Caribbean Basin Trade
79 Initiative; repealing s. 288.9618, F.S., which relates
80 to an economic development program for
81 microenterprises; repealing s. 288.982, F.S., which
82 relates to a public records requirement for certain
83 records relating to the United States Department of
84 Defense Base Realignment and Closure 2005 process;
85 repealing s. 409.946, F.S., which relates to the Inner
86 City Redevelopment Review Panel; amending ss. 288.012,
87 and 311.07, F.S.; revising requirements for the
88 operating plans of the state’s foreign offices and the
89 use of program funds of the Florida Seaport
90 Transportation and Economic Development Program, to
91 delete provisions relating to the Florida Trade Data
92 Center; providing an effective date.
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