Florida Senate - 2013                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1828
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/22/2013           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Hukill) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Before line 56
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Present paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (5)
    6  of section 125.0104, Florida Statutes, are redesignated as
    7  paragraphs (d) and (e), respectively, and amended, and a new
    8  paragraph (c) is added to that subsection to read:
    9         125.0104 Tourist development tax; procedure for levying;
   10  authorized uses; referendum; enforcement.—
   11         (5) AUTHORIZED USES OF REVENUE.—
   12         (c) Tax revenues received pursuant to this section by a
   13  coastal county that has a population of less than 225,000,
   14  excluding the inmate population, and at least nine
   15  municipalities may also be used by that county to fund beach
   16  safety personnel and lifeguard operational activities in areas
   17  where there is public access. All population figures relating to
   18  this paragraph must be based on the most recent population
   19  estimates prepared pursuant to s. 186.901. These population
   20  estimates must be those in effect on April 1 of each year.
   21         (d)(c) The revenues to be derived from the tourist
   22  development tax may be pledged to secure and liquidate revenue
   23  bonds issued by the county for the purposes set forth in
   24  subparagraphs (a)1. and 4. or for the purpose of refunding bonds
   25  previously issued for such purposes, or both; however, no more
   26  than 50 percent of the revenues from the tourist development tax
   27  may be pledged to secure and liquidate revenue bonds or revenue
   28  refunding bonds issued for the purposes set forth in
   29  subparagraph (a)4. Such revenue bonds and revenue refunding
   30  bonds may be authorized and issued in such principal amounts,
   31  with such interest rates and maturity dates, and subject to such
   32  other terms, conditions, and covenants as the governing board of
   33  the county shall provide. The Legislature intends that this
   34  paragraph shall be the full and complete authority for
   35  accomplishing such purposes, but such authority shall be
   36  supplemental and additional to, and not in derogation of, any
   37  powers now existing or later conferred under law.
   38         (e)(d) Any use of the local option tourist development tax
   39  revenues collected pursuant to this section for a purpose not
   40  expressly authorized by paragraph (3)(l) or paragraph (3)(n) or
   41  paragraph (a), paragraph (b), or paragraph (c), or paragraph (d)
   42  of this subsection is expressly prohibited.
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   44  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   45         And the title is amended as follows:
   46         Between lines 2 and 3
   47  insert:
   48         125.0104, F.S.; providing an additional use for
   49         tourist development tax revenues for certain coastal
   50         counties; amending s.