HOUSE AMENDMENT Bill No. HB 1E CS
1	CHAMBER ACTION
2	Senate House
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12	Representative Harper offered the following:
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14	Amendment
15	Remove line(s) 286-338, and insert:
16	7. Requiring the grantee to coordinate and comply with the
17	contracting requirements adopted by the Office of Supplier
18	Diversity under s. 287.09451 and with the ordinances, including
19	any small-business ordinances, enacted by the county in which
20	the biomedical research institution and campus are located in
21	this state.
22	8. Requiring the grantee to work collaboratively with the
23	state’s public and private postsecondary educational
24	institutions and not-for-profit research institutions.
25	9. Requiring the grantee to participate in employee-
26	recruitment activities at a minimum of five public or private
27	universities or community colleges in this state every year
28	during the duration of the contract.
29	10. Requiring the grantee to use the Internet-based job-
30	listing system of the Agency for Workforce Innovation in
31	advertising employment opportunities.
32	11. Requiring the grantee to establish accredited science
33	degree programs.
34	12. Requiring the grantee to establish internship programs
35	to create learning opportunities for educators and secondary and
36	postsecondary students, including graduate and doctoral
37	students.
38	13. Requiring the grantee to submit data to the
39	corporation on its activities and performance during each fiscal
40	year and to provide to the corporation an annual accounting of
41	the expenditure of funds disbursed under this section.
42	14. Authorizing the grantee, when feasible, to use
43	information submitted by it to the Federal Government or to
44	other organizations awarding research grants to the grantee to
45	help meet reporting requirements imposed under this section or
46	the contract, if the information satisfies the reporting
47	standards of this section and the contract.
48	15. Requiring the grantee during the first 7 years of the
49	contract to create 545 positions and to acquire associated
50	research equipment for the grantee's facility in this state, and
51	pay for related maintenance of the equipment, in a total amount
52	of not less than $45 million.
53	16. Requiring the grantee to progress in the creation of
54	the total number of jobs prescribed in subparagraph 14. on the
55	following schedule: 38 positions in the first year, 168
56	positions in the second year, 280 positions in the third year,
57	367 positions in the fourth year, 436 positions in the fifth
58	year, 500 positions in the sixth year, and 545 positions in the
59	seventh year. The board may allow the grantee to deviate from
60	such employee levels by 25 percent in any year, to allow the
61	grantee flexibility in achieving the objectives set forth in the
62	business plan provided to the corporation; however, the grantee
63	must have no fewer than 545 positions by the end of the seventh
64	year.
65	17. Requiring the grantee’s expenditure of funds to be
66	consistent with legislative intent as provided in this act.
67	18. Requiring the grantee to allow the corporation to
68	retain an independent national accounting firm to inspect the
69	records of the grantee in order to audit the expenditure of
70	funds disbursed to the grantee. The independent national
71	accounting firm shall not disclose any confidential or
72	proprietary scientific information of the grantee.
73	19. Requiring the grantee to purchase liability insurance
74	and governing the coverage level of such insurance.
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