Florida Senate - 2015                              CS for SB 876
       
       
        
       By the Committee on Fiscal Policy; and Senator Dean
       
       
       
       
       
       594-04411A-15                                          2015876c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to the Beirut Memorial; amending s.
    3         265.111, F.S.; requiring the Capitol Complex memorial
    4         garden to include a monument for members of the United
    5         States Armed Forces who lost their lives in Beirut,
    6         Lebanon, on a specified date; providing an effective
    7         date.
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    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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   11         Section 1. Subsection (3) of section 265.111, Florida
   12  Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         265.111 Capitol Complex; monuments.—
   14         (3) The Department of Management Services, in consultation
   15  with the Florida Historical Commission, shall set aside an area
   16  of the Capitol Complex, not including the State Capital Circle
   17  Office Complex, and dedicate a memorial garden on which
   18  authorized monuments shall be placed. The memorial garden must
   19  include a monument in remembrance of the 241 members of the
   20  United States Armed Forces who lost their lives on October 23,
   21  1983, in Beirut, Lebanon.
   22         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.