Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. PCS (333636) for SB 1534
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  04/16/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Latvala) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 328 - 352
    4  and insert:
    5         (7) If more than one law enforcement agency is acting
    6  substantially to effect the forfeiture, the court having
    7  jurisdiction over the forfeiture proceedings shall, upon motion,
    8  equitably distribute all proceeds and other property among the
    9  seizing agencies.
   10         (8) Upon the sale of any motor vehicle, vessel, aircraft,
   11  real property, or other property requiring a title, the
   12  appropriate agency shall issue a title certificate to the
   13  purchaser. Upon the request of any law enforcement agency which
   14  elects to retain titled property after forfeiture, the
   15  appropriate state agency shall issue a title certificate for
   16  such property to said law enforcement agency.
   17         (9) A Neither the law enforcement agency, or nor the entity
   18  having budgetary control over the law enforcement agency, may
   19  not shall anticipate future forfeitures or the proceeds from
   20  those forfeitures therefrom in the adoption and approval of the
   21  agency’s budget for the law enforcement agency.
   22         (10) A law enforcement agency participating in forfeiture
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   24  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   25  And the title is amended as follows:
   26         Delete lines 42 - 44
   27  and insert:
   28         seizures into the General Revenue Fund; requiring a
   29         law enforcement