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11  Representative(s) Rubio offered the following:

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13         Amendment (with title amendment) 

14         On page 16, line 18, through page 33, line 4,

15  remove:  all of said lines

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17  and insert:  members, managers, and managing members of a

18  limited liability company nor the managers of a limited

19  liability company managed by a manager or managing member are

20  not liable, solely by reason of being a member or serving as a

21  manager or managing member, under a judgment, decree, or order

22  of a court, or in any other manner, for a debt, obligation, or

23  liability of the limited liability company;

24         (2)  Any such member, managing member, or manager, or

25  other person acting under the articles of organization or

26  operating agreement of a limited liability company is shall

27  not be liable to the limited liability company or to any such

28  other member, managing member, or manager for the member's,

29  managing member's, or manager's, or other person's good faith

30  reliance on the provisions of the limited liability company's

31  articles of organization or operating agreement; and

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  1         (3)  The member's, managing member's, or manager's, or

  2  other person's duties and liabilities may be expanded or

  3  restricted by provisions in a limited liability company's

  4  articles of organization or operating agreement.

  5         Section 14.  Section 608.4228, Florida Statutes, is

  6  amended to read:

  7         608.4228  Limitation of liability of managers and

  8  managing members.--

  9         (1)  A manager or a managing member shall not be

10  personally liable for monetary damages to the limited

11  liability company, its members, or any other person for any

12  statement, vote, decision, or failure to act regarding

13  management or policy decisions by a manager or a managing

14  member, unless:

15         (a)  The manager or managing member breached or failed

16  to perform the duties as a manager or managing member; and

17         (b)  The manager's or managing member's breach of, or

18  failure to perform, those duties constitutes any of the

19  following:

20         1.  A violation of the criminal law, unless the manager

21  or managing member had a reasonable cause to believe his or

22  her conduct was lawful or had no reasonable cause to believe

23  such conduct was unlawful. A judgment or other final

24  adjudication against a manager or managing member in any

25  criminal proceeding for a violation of the criminal law estops

26  that manager or managing member from contesting the fact that

27  such breach, or failure to perform, constitutes a violation of

28  the criminal law, but does not estop the manager or managing

29  member from establishing that he or she had reasonable cause

30  to believe that his or her conduct was lawful or had no

31  reasonable cause to believe that such conduct was unlawful.

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  1         2.  A transaction from which the manager or managing

  2  member derived an improper personal benefit, either directly

  3  or indirectly.

  4         3.  A distribution in violation of s. 608.426.

  5         4.  In a proceeding by or in the right of the limited

  6  liability company to procure a judgment in its favor or by or

  7  in the right of a member, conscious disregard of the best

  8  interest of the limited liability company, or willful

  9  misconduct.

10         5.  In a proceeding by or in the right of someone other

11  than the limited liability company or a member, recklessness

12  or an act or omission which was committed in bad faith or with

13  malicious purpose or in a manner exhibiting wanton and willful

14  disregard of human rights, safety, or property.

15         (2)  For the purposes of this section, the term

16  "recklessness" means acting, or failing to act, in conscious

17  disregard of a risk known, or so obvious that it should have

18  been known, to the manager or managing member, and known to

19  the manager or managing member, or so obvious that it should

20  have been known, to be so great as to make it highly probable

21  that harm would follow from such action or failure to act.

22         (3)  A manager or managing member is deemed not to have

23  derived an improper personal benefit from any transaction if

24  the transaction and the nature of any personal benefit derived

25  by the manager or managing member are not prohibited by state

26  or federal law or the articles of organization or operating

27  agreement and, without further limitation, the transaction and

28  the nature of any personal benefit derived by a manager or

29  managing member are disclosed or known to the members, and the

30  transaction was authorized, approved, or ratified by the vote

31  of a majority-in-interest of the members other than the

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  1  managing member, or the transaction was fair and reasonable to

  2  the limited liability company at the time it was authorized by

  3  the manager or managing member, notwithstanding that a manager

  4  or managing member received a personal benefit.

  5         (4)  The circumstances set forth in subsection (3) are

  6  not exclusive and do not preclude the existence of other

  7  circumstances under which a manager will be deemed not to have

  8  derived an improper benefit.

  9         Section 15.  Section 608.4229, Florida Statutes, is

10  amended to read:

11         608.4229  Indemnification of members, managers,

12  managing members, officers, employees, and agents.--

13         (1)  Subject to such standards and restrictions, if

14  any, as are set forth in its articles of organization or

15  operating agreement, a limited liability company may, and

16  shall have the power to, but shall not be required to,

17  indemnify and hold harmless any member or manager or other

18  person from and against any and all claims and demands

19  whatsoever.

20         (2)  Notwithstanding subsection (1), indemnification or

21  advancement of expenses shall not be made to or on behalf of

22  any member, manager, managing member, officer, employee, or

23  agent if a judgment or other final adjudication establishes

24  that the actions, or omissions to act, of such member,

25  manager, managing member, officer, employee, or agent were

26  material to the cause of action so adjudicated and constitute

27  any of the following:

28         (a)  A violation of criminal law, unless the member,

29  manager, managing member, officer, employee, or agent had no

30  reasonable cause to believe such conduct was unlawful.

31         (b)  A transaction from which the member, manager,

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  1  managing member, officer, employee, or agent derived an

  2  improper personal benefit.

  3         (c)  In the case of a manager or managing member, a

  4  circumstance under which the liability provisions of s.

  5  608.426 are applicable.

  6         (d)  Willful misconduct or a conscious disregard for

  7  the best interests of the limited liability company in a

  8  proceeding by or in the right of the limited liability company

  9  to procure a judgment in its favor or in a proceeding by or in

10  the right of a member.

11         Section 16.  Subsections (1), (2), (3), and (6) of

12  section 608.423, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

13         608.423  Limited liability company operating agreement;

14  nonwaivable provisions.--

15         (1)  Except as otherwise provided in subsection (2),

16  all members of a limited liability company may enter into an

17  operating agreement, which need not be in writing, to regulate

18  the affairs of the limited liability company and the conduct

19  of its business, establish duties in addition to those set

20  forth in this chapter, and to govern relations among the

21  members, managers, and company. Any inconsistency between

22  written and oral operating agreements shall be resolved in

23  favor of the written agreement. The members of a limited

24  liability company may enter into an operating agreement

25  before, after, or at the time the articles of organization are

26  filed, and the operating agreement takes effect on the date of

27  the formation of the limited liability company or on any other

28  date provided in the operating agreement. To the extent the

29  operating agreement does not otherwise provide, this chapter

30  governs relations among the members, managers, and limited

31  liability company.

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  1         (2)  The operating agreement may not:

  2         (a)  Unreasonably restrict a right to information or

  3  access to records under s. 608.4101;

  4         (b)  Eliminate the duty of loyalty under s. 608.4225,

  5  but the agreement may:

  6         1.  Identify specific types or categories of activities

  7  that do not violate the duty of loyalty, if not manifestly

  8  unreasonable; and

  9         2.  Specify the number or percentage of members or

10  disinterested managers that may authorize or ratify, after

11  full disclosure of all material facts, a specific act or

12  transaction that otherwise would violate the duty of loyalty;

13         (c)  Unreasonably reduce the duty of care under s.

14  608.4225;

15         (d)  Eliminate the obligation of good faith and fair

16  dealing under s. 608.4225, but the operating agreement may

17  determine the standards by which the performance of the

18  obligation is to be measured, if the standards are not

19  manifestly unreasonable;

20         (e)  Vary the right to expel a member in an event

21  specified in this chapter;

22         (e)(f)  Vary the requirement to wind up the limited

23  liability company's business in a case specified in this

24  chapter; or

25         (f)(g)  Restrict rights of a person, other than a

26  manager, member, or transferee of a member's distributional

27  interest, under this chapter.

28         (3)  The power to adopt, alter, amend, or repeal the

29  operating agreement of a limited liability company shall be

30  vested in the members of the limited liability company unless

31  vested in the manager or managers of the limited liability

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  1  company by the articles of organization or operating

  2  agreement, provided that any amendment to a written operating

  3  agreement shall be in writing.  The operating agreement

  4  adopted by the members or by the manager or managers may be

  5  repealed or altered; a new operating agreement may be adopted

  6  by the members; and the members may prescribe in any operating

  7  agreement made by them that such operating agreement may not

  8  be altered, amended, or repealed by the manager or managers.

  9         (6)  Actions taken by the limited liability company in

10  good faith in accordance with the emergency operating

11  agreement have the effect of binding the limited liability

12  company and may not be used to impose liability on a manager,

13  employee, or agent of the limited liability company.

14         Section 17.  Subsections (3), (6), and (8) of section

15  608.4231, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

16         608.4231  Voting by members and managers.--

17         (3)  If no conflicting voting provision is contained in

18  the articles of organization or operating agreement:

19         (a)  The members of a limited liability company shall

20  vote in proportion to their then-current percentage or other

21  allocable interest in the profits of the limited liability

22  company or, in the case of a member who has assigned the

23  member's entire economic interest in the limited liability

24  company to a person who has not been admitted as a member, in

25  proportion to the then-current percentage or other allocable

26  interest in the profits of the limited liability company that

27  the assigning member would have, had the assignment not been

28  made.

29         (b)  In all matters in which a vote is required, a vote

30  of a majority-in-interest of the members shall be sufficient

31  unless provided otherwise in the limited liability company's

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  1  articles of organization or operating agreement or this

  2  chapter.

  3         (6)  Except as otherwise provided in the articles of

  4  organization or the operating agreement, if the members have

  5  appointed more than one manager or managing member to manage

  6  the business of the limited liability company, decisions of

  7  the managers or managing members shall be made by majority

  8  vote of the managers or managing members if at a meeting, or

  9  by unanimous written consent. Unless otherwise provided in the

10  articles of organization or operating agreement, on any matter

11  that is to be voted on by one or more managers or managing

12  members, the managers or managing members may vote in person

13  or by proxy. Within 10 days after obtaining such authorization

14  by written consent, notice must be given to those managers or

15  managing members who have not consented in writing or who are

16  not entitled to vote on the action.

17         (8)  Unless otherwise provided in the articles of

18  organization or operating agreement, on any matter that is to

19  be voted on by members, the members may take such action

20  without a meeting, without prior notice, and without a vote if

21  a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so

22  taken, are signed by the members having not less than the

23  minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize

24  or take such action at a meeting, but in no event by a vote of

25  less than a majority-in-interest of the members that would be

26  necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting.

27  Unless otherwise provided in the articles of organization or

28  operating agreement, on any matter that is to be voted on by

29  members or managers, the members or managers may vote in

30  person or by proxy. Within 10 days after obtaining such

31  authorization by written consent, notice must be given to

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  1  those members who have not consented in writing or who are not

  2  entitled to vote on the action.

  3         Section 18.  Section 608.4235, Florida Statutes, is

  4  amended to read:

  5         608.4235  Agency of members and managers or managing

  6  members.--

  7         (1)  Subject to subsections (2) and (3):

  8         (a)  In a member-managed company, each member is an

  9  agent of the limited liability company for the purpose of its

10  business, and an act of a member, including the signing of an

11  instrument in the limited liability company's name, for

12  apparently carrying on in the ordinary course the limited

13  liability company's business or business of the kind carried

14  on by the company binds the limited liability company, unless

15  the member had no authority to act for the limited liability

16  company in the particular matter and the person with whom the

17  member was dealing knew or had notice that the member lacked

18  authority.

19         (b)  An act of a member which is not apparently for

20  carrying on in the ordinary course the limited liability

21  company's business or business of the kind carried on by the

22  limited liability company binds the limited liability company

23  only if the act was authorized by appropriate vote of the

24  other members.

25         (2)  Subject to subsection (3), in a manager-managed

26  company:

27         (a)  A member is not an agent of the limited liability

28  company for the purpose of its business solely by reason of

29  being a member. Each manager is an agent of the limited

30  liability company for the purpose of its business, and an act

31  of a manager, including the signing of an instrument in the

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  1  limited liability company's name, for apparently carrying on

  2  in the ordinary course the limited liability company's

  3  business or business of the kind carried on by the company

  4  binds the limited liability company, unless the manager had no

  5  authority to act for the limited liability company in the

  6  particular matter and the person with whom the manager was

  7  dealing knew or had notice that the manager lacked authority.

  8         (b)  An act of a manager which is not apparently for

  9  carrying on in the ordinary course the limited liability

10  company's business or business of the kind carried on by the

11  limited liability company binds the limited liability company

12  only if the act was authorized under s. 608.422.

13         (3)  Unless the articles of organization or operating

14  agreement limit the authority of a member, any member of a

15  member-managed company or manager of a manager-managed company

16  may sign and deliver any instrument transferring or affecting

17  the limited liability company's interest in real property. The

18  instrument is conclusive in favor of a person who gives value

19  without knowledge of the lack of the authority of the person

20  signing and delivering the instrument.

21         Section 19.  Section 608.4238, Florida Statutes, is

22  amended to read:

23         608.4238  Unauthorized assumption of powers.--All

24  persons purporting to act as or on behalf of a limited

25  liability company, having actual knowledge that there was no

26  organization of a limited liability company under this

27  chapter, are jointly and severally liable for all liabilities

28  created while so acting except for any liability to any person

29  who also had actual knowledge that there was no organization

30  of a limited liability company.

31         Section 20.  Subsection (3) of section 608.425, Florida

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  1  Statutes, is amended to read:

  2         608.425  Limited liability company property.--

  3         (3)  Instruments and documents providing for the

  4  acquisition, mortgage, or disposition of property of the

  5  limited liability company shall be valid and binding upon the

  6  limited liability company, if they are executed in accordance

  7  with this chapter.

  8         Section 21.  Subsection (2) of section 608.428, Florida

  9  Statutes, is amended to read:

10         608.428  Liability upon wrongful distribution.--

11         (2)  A member may not receive a distribution from a

12  limited liability company to the extent that, after giving

13  effect to the distribution, all liabilities of the limited

14  liability company would be insolvent, other than liabilities

15  to members on account of their membership interests in the

16  limited liability company, exceed the value of the limited

17  liability company's assets.

18         Section 22.  Subsection (1) of section 608.432, Florida

19  Statutes, is amended to read:

20         608.432  Assignment of member's interest.--

21         (1)  A limited liability company interest is assignable

22  in whole or in part except as provided in the articles of

23  organization or operating agreement. The assignee of a

24  member's interest shall have no right to participate in the

25  management of the business and affairs of a limited liability

26  company except as provided in the articles of organization or

27  operating agreement and upon:

28         (a)  The approval of all of the members of the limited

29  liability company other than the member assigning the limited

30  liability company interest; or

31         (b)  Compliance with any procedure provided for in the

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  1  articles of organization or operating limited liability

  2  company agreement.

  3         Section 23.  Paragraph (e) of subsection (3) of section

  4  608.438, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

  5         608.438  Merger of limited liability company.--

  6         (3)  The plan of merger shall set forth:

  7         (e)  If a limited liability company is to be the

  8  surviving entity, and management thereof is vested in one or

  9  more managers or managing members, the names and business

10  addresses of such managers or managing members.

11         Section 24.  Subsections (1) and (2) of section

12  608.441, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

13         608.441  Dissolution.--

14         (1)  A limited liability company organized under this

15  chapter shall be dissolved, and the limited liability

16  company's affairs shall be concluded, upon the first to occur

17  of any of the following events:

18         (a)  At the time specified in the articles of

19  organization or operating agreement, but if no such time is

20  set forth in the articles of organization or operating

21  agreement, then the limited liability company shall have a

22  perpetual existence;

23         (b)  Upon the occurrence of events specified in the

24  articles of organization or operating agreement;

25         (c)  Unless otherwise provided in the articles of

26  organization or operating agreement, upon the written consent

27  of all of the members of the limited liability company;

28         (d)  At any time there are no members; however, unless

29  otherwise provided in the articles of organization or

30  operating agreement, the limited liability company is not

31  dissolved and is not required to be wound up if, within 90

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  1  days, or such other period as provided in the articles of

  2  organization or operating agreement, after the occurrence of

  3  the event that terminated the continued membership of the last

  4  remaining member, the personal or other legal representative

  5  of the last remaining member agrees in writing to continue the

  6  limited liability company and agrees to the admission of the

  7  personal representative of such member or its nominee or

  8  designee to the limited liability company as a member,

  9  effective as of the occurrence of the event that terminated

10  the continued membership of the last remaining member; or

11         (e)  The entry of an order of dissolution by a circuit

12  court pursuant to subsection (3).

13         (2)  So long as the limited liability company continues

14  to have at least one remaining member, and except as provided

15  in paragraph (1)(d) or as otherwise provided in the articles

16  of organization or operating agreement, the death, retirement,

17  resignation, expulsion, bankruptcy, or dissolution of any

18  member or the occurrence of any other event that terminates

19  the continued membership of any member shall not cause the

20  limited liability company to be dissolved, and upon the

21  occurrence of any such event, the limited liability company

22  shall be continued without dissolution.

23         Section 25.  Subsection (3) of section 608.444, Florida

24  Statutes, is amended to read:

25         608.444  Distribution of assets upon dissolution.--In

26  settling accounts after dissolution of a limited liability

27  company, the assets of the limited liability company must be

28  distributed in the following order:

29         (3)  Except as provided in the articles of organization

30  or the operating agreement, to members pro rata in proportion

31  to their then-current percentage, or other interests in the

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  1  profits, of the limited liability company.

  2         Section 26.  Subsection (6) of section 608.445, Florida

  3  Statutes, is amended to read:

  4         608.445  Articles of dissolution.--The articles of

  5  dissolution shall set forth:

  6         (6)  The fact that there are no suits pending against

  7  the limited liability company in any court or that adequate

  8  provision has been made for the satisfaction of any judgment,

  9  order, or decree which may be entered against it in any

10  pending suit.

11         Section 27.  Subsection (2) of section 608.446, Florida

12  Statutes, is amended to read:

13         608.446  Filing of articles of dissolution.--

14         (2)  The certificate of dissolution shall be returned

15  to the representative of the dissolved limited liability

16  company. Upon the issuance of such certificate of dissolution,

17  the existence of the limited liability company shall cease,

18  except for the purpose of suits, other proceedings, and

19  appropriate action as provided in this chapter. The manager or

20  managers in office at the time of dissolution, or the

21  survivors of them, or, if none, the members, shall thereafter

22  be trustees for the members and creditors of the dissolved

23  limited liability company; and as such the trustees shall have

24  authority to distribute any company property of the limited

25  liability company discovered after dissolution, to convey real

26  estate, and to take such other action as may be necessary on

27  behalf of and in the name of such dissolved limited liability

28  company.

29         Section 28.  Subsection (2) of section 608.449, Florida

30  Statutes, is amended to read:

31         608.449  Grounds for judicial dissolution.--A circuit

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  1  court may dissolve a limited liability company:

  2         (2)  In a proceeding by a manager or member if it is

  3  established that:

  4         (a)  The managers, managing members, or members are

  5  deadlocked in the management of the limited liability company

  6  affairs, the members are unable to break the deadlock, and

  7  irreparable injury to the limited liability company is

  8  threatened or being suffered; or

  9         (b)  The limited liability company's assets are being

10  misappropriated or wasted.

11         Section 29.  Subsections (1) and (2) of section

12  608.463, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:

13         608.463  Service of process.--

14         (1)  Process against a limited liability company may be

15  served:

16         (a)  In accordance with chapter 48 or chapter 49, as if

17  the limited liability company were a partnership.

18         (b)  Upon the registered agent at the agent's street

19  address.

20         (2)  Any notice to or demand on a limited liability

21  company organized pursuant to this chapter may be made:

22         (a)  By delivery to a manager of the limited liability

23  company, if the management of the limited liability company is

24  vested in one or more managers a manager, or by delivery to a

25  member, if the management of the limited liability company is

26  vested in the members.

27         (b)  By mailing a writing, which notice or demand in

28  writing is mailed to the registered office of the limited

29  liability company in this state or to another address in this

30  state which is the principal office of the limited liability

31  company.

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  1         Section 30.  Subsection (1) of section 608.504, Florida

  2  Statutes, is amended to read:

  3         608.504  Amended certificate of authority.--

  4         (1)  A foreign limited liability company authorized to

  5  transact business in this state shall make application to the

  6  Department of State to obtain an amended certificate of

  7  authority if any statement in the limited liability company's

  8  application was false or becomes false due to change in

  9  circumstances or if the foreign limited liability company

10  changes:

11         (a)  Its limited liability company name.

12         (b)  The period of its duration.

13         (c)  The jurisdiction of its organization.

14         Section 31.  Subsection (2) of section 608.507, Florida

15  Statutes, is amended to read:

16         608.507  Registered office and registered agent of

17  foreign limited liability company.--Each foreign limited

18  liability company in this state must continuously maintain in

19  this state:

20         (2)  A registered agent, which who may be either:

21         (a)  An individual who resides in this state and whose

22  business office is identical with the registered office; or

23         (b)  A domestic corporation or domestic limited

24  liability company the business office of which is identical

25  with the registered office; or

26         (b)(c)  A foreign or domestic entity corporation or

27  foreign limited liability company authorized to transact

28  business in this state which has a the business office of

29  which is identical with the registered office.

30         Section 32.  Section 608.704, Florida Statutes, is

31  created to read:

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  1         608.704  Reservation of power to amend or repeal.--The

  2  Legislature has the power to amend or repeal all or part of

  3  this chapter at any time, and all domestic and foreign limited

  4  liability companies subject to this chapter shall be governed

  5  by the amendment or repeal.

  6         Section 33.  Section 608.705, Florida Statutes, is

  7  created to read:

  8         608.705  Effect of repeal of prior acts.--

  9         (1)  Except as provided in subsection (2), the repeal

10  of a statute by this chapter does not affect:

11         (a)  The operation of the statute or any action taken

12  under it before its repeal, including, without limiting the

13  generality of the foregoing, the continuing validity of any

14  provision of the articles of organization, regulations, or

15  operating agreements of a limited liability company authorized

16  by the statute at the time of its adoption;

17         (b)  Any ratification, right, remedy, privilege,

18  obligation, or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred under

19  the statute before its repeal;

20         (c)  Any violation of the statute, or any penalty,

21  forfeiture, or punishment incurred because of the violation,

22  before its repeal;

23         (d)  Any proceeding, merger, sale of assets,

24  reorganization, or dissolution commenced under the statute

25  before its repeal, and the proceeding, merger, sale of assets,

26  reorganization, or dissolution

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30  And the title is amended as follows:

31         On page 2, line 1, after the word "of",

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