Florida Senate - 2012                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 804
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  01/26/2012           .                                
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       The Committee on Budget Subcommittee on General Government
       Appropriations (Benacquisto) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Between lines 25 and 26
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subsection (5) of section
    6  320.08058, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         320.08058 Specialty license plates.—
    8         (5) FLORIDA PANTHER LICENSE PLATES.—
    9         (b) The department shall distribute the Florida panther
   10  license plate annual use fee in the following manner:
   11         1. Eighty-five percent must be deposited in the Florida
   12  Panther Research and Management Trust Fund in the Fish and
   13  Wildlife Conservation Commission to be used for education and
   14  programs to protect the endangered Florida panther, and up to 10
   15  percent of such deposit may be used to promote and market the
   16  license plate.
   17         2. Fifteen percent, but no less than $300,000, must be
   18  deposited in the Florida Communities Trust Fund to be used
   19  pursuant to the Florida Communities Trust Act.
   20  
   21         Between lines 97 and 98
   22  insert:
   23         Section 6. Subsection (1) of section 380.511, Florida
   24  Statutes, is amended to read:
   25         380.511 Florida Communities Trust Fund.—
   26         (1) There is created the Florida Communities Trust Fund as
   27  a nonlapsing, revolving fund for projects, activities,
   28  acquisitions, and operating expenses necessary to carry out this
   29  part. The fund shall be held and administered by the trust. The
   30  following shall be credited to or deposited in the Florida
   31  Communities Trust Fund:
   32         (a) All moneys and revenue from the operation, management,
   33  sale, lease, or other disposition of land, water areas, related
   34  resources, and the facilities thereon acquired or constructed
   35  under this part.
   36         (b) Moneys accruing to any agency for the purposes listed
   37  in this part.
   38         (c) Proceeds from the sale of environmental license plates
   39  authorized in s. 320.08058(5).
   40         (c)(d) Other moneys as the Legislature authorizes.
   41  
   42  All moneys so deposited into the Florida Communities Trust Fund
   43  shall be trust funds for the uses and purposes set forth in this
   44  section, within the meaning of s. 215.32(1)(b); and such moneys
   45  shall not become or be commingled with the General Revenue Fund
   46  of the state, as defined by s. 215.32(1)(a).
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   48  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   49         And the title is amended as follows:
   50         Between lines 2 and 3
   51  insert:
   52         amending s. 320.08058, F.S.; revising the distribution
   53         of the Florida panther license plate annual use fee by
   54         removing the Florida Communities Trust Fund as a
   55         recipient;
   56  
   57         Delete line 16
   58  and insert:
   59  
   60         endorsements; amending s. 380.511, F.S.; conforming a
   61         reference to changes made by the act; amending s.
   62         921.0022, F.S.; adding to