Florida Senate - 2020                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 906
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  02/12/2020           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Farmer) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Delete lines 62 - 91
    4  and insert:
    5         8. Green iguana (Iguana iguana), except as provided in
    6  paragraph (d).
    7         9. Black and white tegu (Salvator merianae), except as
    8  provided in paragraph (e).
    9         10.8. Any other reptile designated as a conditional or
   10  prohibited species by the commission.
   11         (b) If a person, party, firm, association, or corporation
   12  holds a permit issued before July 1, 2010, under subsection (1)
   13  to legally possess a species listed in paragraph (a), that
   14  person, party, firm, association, or corporation may possess
   15  such reptile for the remainder of the life of the reptile.
   16         (c) If a person, party, firm, association, or corporation
   17  holds a permit issued before July 1, 2010, under subsection (1)
   18  to legally possess a reptile listed in paragraph (a), and the
   19  reptile remains alive following the death or dissolution of the
   20  licensee, the reptile may be legally transferred to another
   21  entity holding a permit authorizing possession of the reptile
   22  for the remainder of the life of the reptile.
   23         (d) If a person, party, firm, association, or corporation
   24  holds a permit issued by the commission under subsection (1) to
   25  legally possess green iguanas, that person, party, firm,
   26  association, or corporation may only possess green iguanas for
   27  the purpose of the out-of-state sale of green iguanas.
   28         (e) If a person, party, firm, association, or corporation
   29  holds a permit issued by the commission under subsection (1) to
   30  legally possess black and white tegus, that person, party, firm,
   31  association, or corporation may only possess black and white
   32  tegus for the purpose of the out-of-state sale of black and
   33  white tegus.
   34         (f)(d) If the commission designates a species of reptile as
   35  a conditional or prohibited species after July 1, 2010, the
   36  commission may authorize the personal possession of that newly
   37  designated species by those licensed to possess that species of
   38  reptile before the effective date of the species’ designation by
   39  the commission as a conditional or prohibited species. The
   40  personal possession of such reptile is not a violation of
   41  paragraph (a) if the personal possession was authorized by the
   42  commission.
   43         (g)(e) This subsection does not apply to traveling wildlife
   44  exhibitors that are licensed or registered under the United
   45  States Animal Welfare Act or to zoological facilities that are
   46  licensed or exempted by the commission from the licensure
   47  requirement.
   48         (3) The commission shall establish by rule a method and
   49  process for the capture, purchase, inventory, and sale of all
   50  green iguanas and black and white tegus.
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   52  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   53  And the title is amended as follows:
   54         Between lines 7 and 8
   55  insert:
   56         authorizing certain persons, parties, firms,
   57         associations, and corporations to possess green
   58         iguanas and black and white tegus for specified
   59         purposes; requiring the Fish and Wildlife Conservation
   60         Commission to adopt rules;