Florida Senate - 2012                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS/CS/HB 7117, 2nd Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Floor: WD            .                                
             03/08/2012 05:27 PM       .                                
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       Senator Evers moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 1324 - 1348
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 15. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 526.203,
    6  Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsections (5) and (6) are
    7  added to that section, to read:
    8         526.203 Renewable fuel standard.—
    9         (1) DEFINITIONS.—As used in this act, the term:
   10         (a) “Alternative fuel” means a fuel produced from biomass,
   11  as defined in s. 366.91, which is used to replace or reduce the
   12  quantity of fossil fuel present in a petroleum fuel that meets
   13  the specifications as adopted by the department.
   14         (b)(a) “Blender,” “importer,” “terminal supplier,” and
   15  “wholesaler” are defined as provided in s. 206.01.
   16         (c)(b) “Blended gasoline” means a mixture of 90 to 91
   17  percent gasoline and 9 to 10 percent fuel ethanol or other
   18  alternative fuel, by volume, which that meets the specifications
   19  as adopted by the department. The fuel ethanol or other
   20  alternative fuel portion may be derived from any agricultural
   21  source.
   22         (d)(c) “Fuel ethanol” means an anhydrous denatured alcohol
   23  produced by the conversion of carbohydrates which that meets the
   24  specifications as adopted by the department.
   25         (e)(d) “Unblended gasoline” means gasoline that has not
   26  been blended with fuel ethanol or other alternative fuel and
   27  that meets the specifications as adopted by the department.
   28         (2) FUEL STANDARD.—Beginning December 31, 2010, all
   29  gasoline sold or offered for sale in Florida by a terminal
   30  supplier, importer, blender must, or wholesaler shall be blended
   31  gasoline.
   32         (5) This section does not prohibit a terminal supplier,
   33  importer, wholesaler, or retail dealer, as defined in s. 206.01,
   34  from selling or offering to sell unblended gasoline.
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   37         And the title is amended as follows:
   38         Delete line 99
   39  and insert:
   40         the term “alternative fuel”; removing the requirement
   41         that a terminal supplier, importer, or wholesaler sell
   42         or offer for sale exclusively blended gasoline;
   43         authorizing the sale of