Florida Senate - 2014                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 1634
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/25/2014           .                                
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       Domestic Security (Altman) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Substitute for Amendment (474724) 
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    3         Delete lines 545 - 563
    4  and insert:
    5         Section 10. Subsections (5) and (8) of section 331.3051,
    6  Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
    7         331.3051 Duties of Space Florida.—Space Florida shall:
    8         (5) Consult with the Florida Tourism Industry Marketing
    9  Corporation Enterprise Florida, Inc., in developing a space
   10  tourism marketing plan. Space Florida and the Florida Tourism
   11  Industry Marketing Corporation Enterprise Florida, Inc., may
   12  enter into a mutually beneficial agreement that provides funding
   13  to the corporation Enterprise Florida, Inc., for its services to
   14  implement this subsection.
   15         (8) Carry out its responsibility for research and
   16  development by:
   17         (a) Contracting for the operations of the state’s Space
   18  Life Sciences Laboratory.
   19         (b) Working in collaboration with one or more public or
   20  private universities and other public or private entities to
   21  develop a proposal for a Center of Excellence for Aerospace that
   22  will foster and promote the research necessary to develop
   23  commercially promising, advanced, and innovative science and
   24  technology and will transfer those discoveries to the commercial
   25  sector. This may include developing a proposal to establish a
   26  Center of Excellence for Aerospace.
   27         (c) Supporting universities in this state that are members
   28  of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Center of Excellence
   29  for Commercial Space Transportation to assure a safe,
   30  environmentally compatible, and efficient commercial space
   31  transportation system in this state.