The Florida Senate

CS/HB 1657: Mergers/Businesses or Corporations

GENERAL BILL by Financial Services ; Kosmas

Mergers/Businesses or Corporations; removes time limitation on voting trusts; provides for mergers of domestic corporations & other business entities, for mergers of limited liability companies, & mergers of domestic limited partnerships under certain circumstances; requires plan of merger, criteria, action on plan of merger, procedures, articles of merger, & effects of merger, etc. Amends Chs. 607, 608,620.

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• Bill History

  Date	Chamber	Action
  3/21/1997	House	• Filed; Introduced -HJ 00303
  4/1/1997	House	• Referred to Financial Services (EIC); Civil Justice & Claims (JC); Governmental Rules & Regulations (GRC); Finance & Taxation (FRC); General Government Appropriations -HJ 00371
  5/2/1997	House	• Carried over to 1998 Session pursuant to House Rule 96, In House Committee on Financial Services (EIC), Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s) passed refer to HB 1245 (Ch. 97-230)
  2/26/1998	House	• On Committee agenda-- Financial Services (EIC), 03/04/98, 1:00 pm, Morris Hall
  3/3/1998	House	• CARRIED OVER; Referred to Financial Services (EIC); Civil Justice & Claims (JC); Governmental Rules & Regulations (GRC); Finance & Taxation (FRC); General Government Appropriations; On Committee agenda-- Financial Services (EIC), 03/04/98, 1:00 pm, Morris Hall --Temporarily deferred
  3/4/1998	House	• On Committee agenda-- Financial Services (EIC), 03/10/98, 9:00 am, Morris Hall --Meeting Cancelled
  3/5/1998	House	• On Committee agenda-- Financial Services (EIC), 03/11/98, 1:30 pm, 413C
  3/11/1998	House	• Comm. Action: Unanimously CS by Financial Services (EIC) -HJ 00307
  3/20/1998	House	• CS read first time on 03/20/98 -HJ 00302; Now in Civil Justice & Claims (JC) -HJ 00307
  3/24/1998	House	• Withdrawn from Civil Justice & Claims (JC) -HJ 00314; Now in Governmental Rules & Regulations (GRC); On Committee agenda-- Governmental Rules & Regulations (GRC), 03/30/98, 3:45 pm, 314-HOB
  3/30/1998	House	• Comm. Action: Unanimously Favorable by Governmental Rules & Regulations (GRC) -HJ 00436
  4/1/1998	House	• Now in Finance & Taxation (FRC) -HJ 00436
  4/2/1998	House	• On Committee agenda-- Finance & Taxation (FRC), 04/08/98, 1:00 pm, Morris Hall --Meeting cancelled
  4/8/1998	House	• On Committee agenda-- Finance & Taxation (FRC), 04/14/98, 3:45 pm, Morris Hall
  4/15/1998	House	• Comm. Action: Unanimously Favorable with 2 amendment(s) by Finance & Taxation (FRC) -HJ 00690
  4/16/1998	House	• Now in General Government Appropriations -HJ 00690
  4/22/1998	House	• On Committee agenda-- General Government Appropriations, 04/23/98, 4:30 pm, 214C
  4/23/1998	House	• Comm. Action:-Unanimously Favorable by General Government Appropriations -HJ 01367
  4/24/1998	House	• Pending Consent Calendar -HJ 01367
  5/1/1998	House	• Died pending Consent Calendar, Iden./Sim./Compare bill passed refer to SB 704 (Ch. 98-101)

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• CS/HB 1657, Committee Substitute 1 (Current Bill Version) Posted 8/28/2000 at 11:08 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:

  Financial Services (Post-Meeting) 3/19/1998 (pdf) Financial Services (Post-Meeting) 3/19/1998 (pdf) Financial Services (Post-Meeting) 3/19/1998 (pdf) Finance & Taxation (Post-Meeting) 4/6/1998 (pdf) Finance & Taxation (Post-Meeting) 4/6/1998 (pdf) Finance & Taxation (Post-Meeting) 4/6/1998 (pdf) Finance & Taxation (Post-Meeting) 4/15/1998 (pdf) Finance & Taxation (Post-Meeting) 4/15/1998 (pdf) Finance & Taxation (Post-Meeting) 4/15/1998 (pdf) General Government Appropriations (Post-Meeting) 4/22/1998 (pdf) General Government Appropriations (Post-Meeting) 4/23/1998 (pdf) Governmental Rules & Regulations (Post-Meeting) 3/27/1998 (pdf) Governmental Rules & Regulations (Post-Meeting) 3/27/1998 (pdf) Governmental Rules & Regulations (Post-Meeting) 3/31/1998 (pdf) Governmental Rules & Regulations (Post-Meeting) 3/31/1998 (pdf)

  Related Bills (2)

  Bill Number	Subject	Filed By	Relationship	Last Action and Location
  S 518 (c1)	Mergers/Businesses or Corporations	Grant	Similar	Last Action: 5/1/1998 S Died in Committee on Ways and Means, Iden./Sim./Compare Bill(s) passed, refer to SB 704 (Ch. 98-101) Location:
  S 704 (e1)		Klein	Similar	Last Action: 5/22/1998 Became Law without Governor's Signature; Chapter No. 98-101; See also CS/HB 4413 (Ch. 98-342), CS/SB 608 (Ch. 98-100) Location:

  Committee Amendments (2)

  Amendment	Sponsor	Filed	Last Committee Action	Format
  072109 - Amendment	Finance & Taxation	4/24/1998 8:32 PM		Web Page PDF
  980091 - Amendment	Finance & Taxation	4/24/1998 8:34 PM		Web Page PDF

  Citations - Statutes (16)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  607.0730	Voting trusts.
  607.1108
  607.1109
  607.11101
  607.11102
  608.407	Articles of organization.
  608.438
  608.4381
  608.4382
  608.4383
  608.4384
  620.201
  620.202
  620.203
  620.204
  620.205

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• HB 1657, Original Filed Version Posted 8/28/2000 at 11:08 AM

  Bill Text:	Web Page | PDF

  Analyses:	Financial Services (Post-Meeting) 2/26/1998 (pdf) Financial Services (Post-Meeting) 2/26/1998 (pdf)

  Citations - Statutes (13)

  Citation	Catchline	Location in Bill Location In Bill Help
  607.1108
  607.1109
  607.11101
  608.438
  608.4381
  608.4382
  608.4383
  608.4384
  620.201
  620.202
  620.203
  620.204
  620.205

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