Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 946
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/09/2015           .                                
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       The Committee on Environmental Preservation and Conservation
       (Soto) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete everything after the enacting clause
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 1. Section 683.095, Florida Statutes, is created to
    6  read:
    7         683.095 Sir Lancelot Jones Day; Miami-Dade and Monroe
    8  Counties.—The second Monday in October of each year is
    9  designated as “Sir Lancelot Jones Day” in Miami-Dade and Monroe
   10  Counties to commemorate the contributions of Sir Lancelot
   11  Garfield Jones in the preservation of Biscayne Bay and the
   12  establishment of Biscayne National Park. Public officials,
   13  schools, private organizations, and all citizens in Miami-Dade
   14  and Monroe Counties are encouraged to honor the legacy of Sir
   15  Lancelot Garfield Jones and his contributions to the state by
   16  commemorating Sir Lancelot Jones Day on the second Monday in
   17  October of each year.
   18         Section 2. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.
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   20  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   21  And the title is amended as follows:
   22         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   23  and insert:
   24                        A bill to be entitled                      
   25         An act relating to legal holidays and special
   26         observances; creating s. 683.095, F.S.; designating
   27         the second Monday in October of each year as “Sir
   28         Lancelot Jones Day” in Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties;
   29         encouraging public officials, schools, private
   30         organizations, and citizens in Miami-Dade and Monroe
   31         Counties to commemorate the occasion; providing an
   32         effective date.
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   34         WHEREAS, born in 1898 on a 22-foot boat in Biscayne Bay,
   35  entrepreneur and farmer Sir Lancelot Garfield Jones prospered by
   36  supplying the nation with Key limes and was an expert fishing
   37  guide sought by five presidents and numerous senators,
   38  influential industrialists, and other cultural icons eager to
   39  experience the beauty of the bay’s wildlife, and
   40         WHEREAS, Sir Lancelot Garfield Jones lived most of his 99
   41  years on the tiny island known as Porgy Key, near the southern
   42  end of Biscayne Bay, which was first settled by his pioneer
   43  father and Bahamian mother in 1897 in an area long associated
   44  with African American maritime history and which is now on the
   45  National Register of Historical Places, and
   46         WHEREAS, given the adjacent ecosystems of southern Biscayne
   47  Bay and the northern Florida Keys, the lifelong conservation and
   48  education efforts of Sir Lancelot Garfield Jones are of
   49  significant importance to Miami-Dade and Monroe Counties, and
   50         WHEREAS, often referred to as the “Sage of Caesar Creek,”
   51  Sir Lancelot Garfield Jones became an educator of schoolchildren
   52  and a conservationist whose resolute values toward the
   53  preservation of Biscayne Bay greatly contributed to the
   54  establishment of Biscayne National Park, which was created to
   55  preserve and protect area wildlife for the education,
   56  inspiration, recreation, and enjoyment of present and future
   57  generations, and
   58         WHEREAS, Biscayne National Park is home to a rare
   59  combination of terrestrial, marine, and amphibious life in a
   60  tropical and subtropical setting of great natural beauty, which
   61  annually draws an average of 500,000 visitors, contributes more
   62  than $34 million to the state’s economy, and supports 422 jobs,
   63  and
   64         WHEREAS, the invaluable efforts of Sir Lancelot Garfield
   65  Jones to preserve the land he loved and to ensure that future
   66  generations would delight in its beauty and abundance have
   67  resulted in significant economic, ecological, and cultural
   68  contributions to the state, its heritage, and its future, NOW,
   69  THEREFORE,