Amendment
Bill No. HB 7207
Amendment No. 260681
CHAMBER ACTION
Senate House
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1Representative Aubuchon offered the following:
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3     Amendment (with title amendment)
4     Remove lines 230-286 and insert:
5     1.  The State Economic Enhancement and Development Trust
6Fund in the Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development
7of the Executive Office of the Governor State Transportation
8Trust Fund in the Department of Transportation in the amount of
9the lesser of 38.2 percent of the remainder or $541.75 million
10in each fiscal year. The Revenue Estimating Conference shall
11maintain separate accounting of proceeds that would be
12attributed to the State Transportation Trust Fund based on
13distributions pursuant to this subparagraph as in effect on June
1430, 2012. , to be used for the following specified purposes,
15notwithstanding any other law to the contrary:
16     a.  For the purposes of capital funding for the New Starts
17Transit Program, authorized by Title 49, U.S.C. s. 5309 and
18specified in s. 341.051, 10 percent of these funds;
19     b.  For the purposes of the Small County Outreach Program
20specified in s. 339.2818, 5 percent of these funds. Effective
21July 1, 2014, the percentage allocated under this sub-
22subparagraph shall be increased to 10 percent;
23     c.  For the purposes of the Strategic Intermodal System
24specified in ss. 339.61, 339.62, 339.63, and 339.64, 75 percent
25of these funds after allocating for the New Starts Transit
26Program described in sub-subparagraph a. and the Small County
27Outreach Program described in sub-subparagraph b.; and
28     d.  For the purposes of the Transportation Regional
29Incentive Program specified in s. 339.2819, 25 percent of these
30funds after allocating for the New Starts Transit Program
31described in sub-subparagraph a. and the Small County Outreach
32Program described in sub-subparagraph b. Effective July 1, 2014,
33the first $60 million of the funds allocated pursuant to this
34sub-subparagraph shall be allocated annually to the Florida Rail
35Enterprise for the purposes established in s. 341.303(5).
36     2.  The Grants and Donations Trust Fund in the Department
37of Community Affairs in the amount of the lesser of .23 percent
38of the remainder or $3.25 million in each fiscal year to fund
39technical assistance to local governments and school boards on
40the requirements and implementation of this act.
41     3.  The Ecosystem Management and Restoration Trust Fund in
42the amount of the lesser of 2.12 percent of the remainder or $30
43million in each fiscal year, to be used for the preservation and
44repair of the state's beaches as provided in ss. 161.091-
45161.212.
46     4.  General Inspection Trust Fund in the amount of the
47lesser of .02 percent of the remainder or $300,000 in each
48fiscal year to be used to fund oyster management and restoration
49programs as provided in s. 379.362(3).
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51Moneys distributed pursuant to this paragraph may not be pledged
52for debt service unless such pledge is approved by referendum of
53the voters.
54     (d)  After the required payments under paragraphs (a), (b),
55and (c), the remainder shall be paid into the State Treasury to
56the credit of the General Revenue Fund to be used and expended
57for the purposes for which the General Revenue Fund was created
58and exists by law.
59     (9)  Sixteen and nineteen hundredths The lesser of 7.53
60percent of the remaining taxes or $107 million in each fiscal
61year shall be paid into the State Treasury to the credit of the
62State Economic Enhancement and Development Trust Fund in the
63Office of Tourism, Trade, and Economic Development of the
64Executive Office of the Governor. The Revenue Estimating
65Conference shall maintain separate accounting of proceeds that
66would be attributed to the State Housing Trust Fund and the
67Local Government Housing Trust Fund based on distributions
68pursuant to this subsection as in effect on June 30, 2012.  
69State Housing Trust Fund and used as follows:
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T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T
74     Remove line 22 and insert:
75Fund, and specified uses of such distributions; requiring the
76Revenue Estimating Conference to maintain separate accounting of
77specified proceeds; providing


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