Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 698
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/04/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Fiscal Policy (Bradley) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 243 - 292
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 7. Subsections (2) and (9) of section 565.02,
    6  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         565.02 License fees; vendors; clubs; caterers; and others.—
    8         (2)(a) Any operator of railroad transit stations,
    9  railroads, or sleeping cars in this state may obtain a license
   10  to sell the beverages mentioned in the Beverage Law on passenger
   11  trains upon the payment of an annual license tax of $2,500, the
   12  tax to be paid to the division. The Such license is good
   13  throughout the state and authorizes shall authorize the licensee
   14  holder thereof to keep for sale and to sell all beverages
   15  mentioned in the Beverage Law on upon any dining, club, parlor,
   16  buffet, or observation car or within the property of a railroad
   17  transit station operated by the licensee. it in this state, but
   18  Such beverages may be sold only to passengers on such upon the
   19  cars or within the property of the railroad transit station and
   20  must be served for consumption thereon. Licenses issued pursuant
   21  to this paragraph for railroad transit stations may not be
   22  transferred to locations beyond the premises of the railroad
   23  transit station. A municipality or county may not require an
   24  additional license or levy a tax for the privilege of selling
   25  such beverages.
   26         (b) Except for alcoholic beverages sold within the property
   27  of a railroad transit station, it is unlawful for such licensees
   28  to purchase or sell any liquor except in miniature bottles of
   29  not more than 2 ounces. Every such license shall be good
   30  throughout the state. No license shall be required, or tax
   31  levied by any municipality or county, for the privilege of
   32  selling such beverages for consumption in such cars. Such
   33  beverages may shall be sold only on cars in which are posted
   34  certified copies of the licenses issued to the such operator are
   35  posted. Such Certified copies of such licenses shall be issued
   36  by the division upon the payment of a tax of $10.
   37         (c) A limitation of the number of licenses issued pursuant
   38  to this section does not prohibit the issuance of a license
   39  authorized by the Beverage Law or a special license issued
   40  pursuant to s. 561.20 to operators of restaurants, shops, or
   41  other facilities that are part of, or that serve, railroad
   42  transit stations. The alcoholic beverages sold by a licensed
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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         Delete lines 30 - 44
   47  and insert:
   48         565.02, F.S.; authorizing operators of railroad
   49         transit stations to obtain licenses to sell alcoholic
   50         beverages; revising the locations where certain
   51         beverages may be sold; prohibiting the transfer of
   52         specified licenses to certain locations; prohibiting a
   53         municipality or county from requiring an additional
   54         license or levying a tax to sell certain beverages;
   55         exempting railroad transit stations from liquor bottle
   56         size restrictions; authorizing alcoholic beverages