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CS/SB 990: Rural Communities

GENERAL BILL by Commerce and Tourism ; Montford ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Gibson

Rural Communities; Designating the “Florida Rural Community Jobs and Business Resiliency Act”; requiring the Department of Economic Opportunity to accept an application seeking approval as a rural growth fund; prohibiting the department from reducing the investment authority of an application or denying an application for reasons other than the ones listed; providing that a taxpayer who makes an investor contribution is vested with a credit against state premium tax liability; specifying that an out-of-state business relocating employees to this state must satisfy a specific definition within a certain timeframe before a new principal place of business operations is recognized, etc.

Effective Date: 7/1/2018
Last Action: 3/10/2018 Senate - Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Bill Text: Web Page | PDF
Senate Committee References:
  1. Commerce and Tourism (CM)
  2. Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development (ATD)
  3. Appropriations (AP)



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
11/21/2017 Senate • Filed
12/13/2017 Senate • Referred to Commerce and Tourism; Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development; Appropriations -SJ 76
1/9/2018 Senate • Introduced -SJ 76
1/11/2018 Senate • On Committee agenda-- Commerce and Tourism, 01/16/18, 1:30 pm, 110 Senate Office Building
1/16/2018 Senate • CS by Commerce and Tourism; YEAS 8 NAYS 0 -SJ 205
1/17/2018 Senate • Pending reference review under Rule 4.7(2) - (Committee Substitute)
1/19/2018 Senate • Now in Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development -SJ 205
1/23/2018 Senate • CS by Commerce and Tourism read 1st time -SJ 210
3/10/2018 Senate • Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration
• Died in Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development