Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. HB 7087, 2nd Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                    Senate             .             House              
                   Comm: OO            .                                
                  03/07/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on Finance and Tax (Norman)
       recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment 
    2  
    3         Delete lines 119 - 120
    4  and insert:
    5  Chief Financial Officer. Beginning July 1, 2013, and continuing
    6  through June 30, 2021, the division shall from month to month
    7  
    8         Delete lines 146 - 147
    9  and insert:
   10         (c) Beginning July 1, 2013, and continuing through June 30,
   11  2021, the division shall from month to month certify to the
   12  
   13         Delete lines 161 - 189
   14  and insert:
   15         Section 2. Section 210.201, Florida Statutes, is amended to
   16  read:
   17         210.201 H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
   18  facilities Cancer research facility at the University of South
   19  Florida; establishment; funding.—The Board of Directors of the
   20  H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute shall
   21  construct, furnish, and equip, and shall covenant to complete,
   22  the cancer research and clinical and related facilities of
   23  facility at the University of South Florida adjacent to the H.
   24  Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute funded with
   25  proceeds from the Cigarette Tax Collection Trust Fund pursuant
   26  to s. 210.20. Moneys transferred to the Board of Directors of
   27  the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute pursuant
   28  to s. 210.20 may shall be used to secure financing to pay costs
   29  related to constructing, furnishing, and equipping, operating,
   30  and maintaining the cancer research and clinical and related
   31  facilities; furnishing, equipping, operating, and maintaining
   32  other leased or owned properties; and paying costs incurred in
   33  connection with purchasing, financing, operating, and
   34  maintaining such equipment, facilities, and properties as
   35  provided in s. 210.20 facility. Such financing may include the
   36  issuance of tax-exempt bonds or other forms of indebtedness by a
   37  local authority, municipality, or county pursuant to parts II
   38  and III of chapter 159. Such bonds shall not constitute state
   39  bonds for purposes of s. 11, Art. VII of the State Constitution,
   40  but shall constitute bonds of a “local agency,” as defined in s.
   41  159.27(4). The cigarette tax dollars pledged to facilities this
   42  facility pursuant to s. 210.20 may be replaced annually by the
   43  Legislature from tobacco litigation settlement proceeds.