Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1204
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: FAV            .                                
                  01/19/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Commerce and Tourism (Detert) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 2531 - 2555
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 81. Section 331.3081, Florida Statutes, is amended
    6  to read:
    7         331.3081 Board of directors; advisory board.—
    8         (1) Space Florida shall be governed by a 13­member 12
    9  member independent board of directors that consists of the
   10  members appointed to the board of directors of Enterprise
   11  Florida, Inc., by the Governor, the President of the Senate, and
   12  the Speaker of the House of Representatives pursuant to s.
   13  288.901(5)(a)5. The Governor or the Governor’s designee shall be
   14  an ex officio voting member and shall serve as the chair of the
   15  board.
   16         (2) Space Florida shall have a 15-member advisory council,
   17  appointed by the Governor from a list of nominations submitted
   18  by the board of directors. The advisory council shall be
   19  composed of Florida residents with expertise in the space
   20  industry, and each of the following areas of expertise or
   21  experience must be represented by at least one advisory council
   22  member: human space-flight programs, commercial launches into
   23  space, organized labor with experience working in the aerospace
   24  industry, aerospace-related industries, a commercial company
   25  working under Federal Government contracts to conduct space
   26  related business, an aerospace company whose primary client is
   27  the United States Department of Defense, and an alternative
   28  energy enterprise with potential for aerospace applications. The
   29  advisory council shall elect a member to serve as the chair of
   30  the council.
   31         (3) The advisory council shall make recommendations to the
   32  board of directors of Enterprise Florida, Inc., on the operation
   33  of Space Florida, including matters pertaining to ways to
   34  improve or enhance Florida’s efforts to expand its existing
   35  space and aerospace industry, to improve management and use of
   36  Florida’s state-owned real property assets related to space and
   37  aerospace, how best to retain and, if necessary, retrain
   38  Florida’s highly skilled space and aerospace workforce, and how
   39  to strengthen bonds between this state, NASA, the Department of
   40  Defense, and private space and aerospace industries.
   41         (4) The term for an advisory council member is 4 years. A
   42  member may not serve more than two consecutive terms. The
   43  Governor may remove any member for cause and shall fill all
   44  vacancies that occur.
   45         (5) Advisory council members shall serve without
   46  compensation but may be reimbursed for all reasonable,
   47  necessary, and actual expenses as determined by the board of
   48  directors of Enterprise Florida, Inc.
   49  	Section 83. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (3) of
   50  section 20.60, Florida Statutes, to read:
   51         20.60 Department of Economic Opportunity; creation; powers
   52  and duties.—
   53         (3) The following divisions of the Department of Economic
   54  Opportunity are established:
   55         (e) The Division of Information Technology.
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   58         And the title is amended as follows:
   59         Delete lines 37 - 44
   60  and insert:
   61         amending s. 331.3081, F.S.; adding the Governor or the
   62         Governor’s designee as a member and chair of the board
   63         of directors of Space Florida; deleting provisions
   64         establishing the Space Florida advisory council;
   65         amending s. 20.60, F.S.; establishing the Division of
   66         Information Technology within the Department of
   67         Economic Opportunity; repealing s.
   68