Florida Senate - 2013                          SENATOR AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1024
       
       
       
       
       
       
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       Senator Detert moved the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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    3         Delete lines 1099 - 1108
    4  and insert:
    5         (5)(a) The executive director may not approve an economic
    6  development incentive application unless the application
    7  includes a signed written declaration by the applicant which
    8  states that the applicant has read the information in the
    9  application and that the information is true, correct, and
   10  complete to the best of the applicant’s knowledge and belief.
   11         (b) After an economic development incentive application is
   12  approved, the awardee shall provide, in each year that the
   13  department is required to validate contractor performance, a
   14  signed written declaration. The written declaration must state
   15  that the awardee has reviewed the information and that the
   16  information is true, correct, and complete to the best of the
   17  awardee’s knowledge and belief.
   18         (6) In the event of default on the performance conditions
   19  specified in the contract or agreement, or violation of any of
   20  the provisions found in this section, the state may, in addition
   21  to any other remedy provided by law, bring suit to enforce its
   22  interest.
   23         (7)(3) The department shall validate contractor performance
   24  and report. such Such validation shall be reported in the annual
   25  incentives incentive report required under s. 288.907.
   26         (8) The department is authorized to adopt rules to
   27  implement this section.
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   30         And the title is amended as follows:
   31         Delete line 126
   32  and insert:
   33         Commission; prohibiting the executive director from
   34         approving an economic development incentive
   35         application unless a specified written declaration is
   36         received; requiring an awardee to provide a signed
   37         written declaration in specified years; providing that
   38         the state may bring suit