Florida Senate - 2016                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. HB 7099, 2nd Eng.
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  03/04/2016           .                                
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       The Committee on Appropriations (Hays) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment to Amendment (403268) (with title
    2  amendment)
    3  
    4         Between lines 4 and 5
    5  insert:
    6         Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of section
    7  565.03, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    8         565.03 License fees; manufacturers, distributors, brokers,
    9  sales agents, and importers of alcoholic beverages; vendor
   10  licenses and fees; craft distilleries.—
   11         (2)(a) A distillery authorized to do business under the
   12  Beverage Law shall pay an annual state license tax for each
   13  plant or branch operating in the state, as follows:
   14         1. If engaged in the business of manufacturing distilled
   15  spirits, a state license tax of $4,000.
   16         2. If engaged in the business of rectifying and blending
   17  spirituous liquors and nothing else, a state license tax of
   18  $4,000.
   19         3. If engaged in the business of manufacturing distilled
   20  spirits as a qualified craft distillery, a state license tax of
   21  $1,000.
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   24  And the title is amended as follows:
   25         Delete line 1249
   26  and insert:
   27         An act relating to taxation; amending s. 565.03, F.S.;
   28         specifying the annual state license tax for certain
   29         plants or branches of a specified distillery; amending
   30         s. 196.012,