Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 266
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/04/2014           .                                
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       (Hukill) recommended the following:
       
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    4         Between lines 57 and 58
    5  insert:
    6         Section 3. Subsection (2) of section 202.18, Florida
    7  Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         202.18 Allocation and disposition of tax proceeds.—The
    9  proceeds of the communications services taxes remitted under
   10  this chapter shall be treated as follows:
   11         (2) The proceeds of the taxes remitted under s.
   12  202.12(1)(b) shall be allocated divided as follows:
   13         (a) The portion of such proceeds that constitute which
   14  constitutes gross receipts taxes, imposed at the rate prescribed
   15  in chapter 203, shall be deposited as provided by law and in
   16  accordance with s. 9, Art. XII of the State Constitution.
   17         (b) Fifty-four and one-half Sixty-three percent of the
   18  remainder shall be allocated to the state and distributed
   19  pursuant to s. 212.20(6), except that the proceeds allocated
   20  pursuant to s. 212.20(6)(d)2. shall be prorated to the
   21  participating counties in the same proportion as that month’s
   22  collection of the taxes and fees imposed pursuant to chapter 212
   23  and paragraph (1)(b).
   24         (c)1. During each calendar year, the remaining portion of
   25  such proceeds shall be transferred to the Local Government Half
   26  cent Sales Tax Clearing Trust Fund. Seventy percent of such
   27  proceeds shall be allocated in the same proportion as the
   28  allocation of total receipts of the half-cent sales tax under s.
   29  218.61 and the emergency distribution under s. 218.65 in the
   30  prior state fiscal year. Thirty percent of such proceeds shall
   31  be distributed pursuant to s. 218.67.
   32         2. The proportion of the proceeds allocated based on the
   33  emergency distribution under s. 218.65 shall be distributed
   34  pursuant to s. 218.65.
   35         3. In each calendar year, the proportion of the proceeds
   36  allocated based on the half-cent sales tax under s. 218.61 shall
   37  be allocated to each county in the same proportion as the
   38  county’s percentage of total sales tax allocation for the prior
   39  state fiscal year and distributed pursuant to s. 218.62.
   40  4. The department shall distribute the appropriate amount to
   41  each municipality and county each month at the same time that
   42  local communications services taxes are distributed pursuant to
   43  subsection (3).
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   46  And the title is amended as follows:
   47         Delete lines 6 - 7
   48  and insert:
   49         direct-to-home satellite services; amending s.
   50         202.12001, F.S.; conforming rates to the reduction of
   51         the communications services tax; amending s. 202.18,
   52         F.S.; revising the distribution of tax revenues
   53         received; amending s. 203.001. F.S.; conforming rates
   54         to the