| 1 | Representative(s) Gelber offered the following: |
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| 3 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 4 | Between lines 1799 and 1800, insert: |
| 5 | Section 12. An annual fee of $15 per slot machine is |
| 6 | hereby imposed upon each slot machine approved for use at any |
| 7 | pari-mutuel facility licensed to provide slot machine gaming |
| 8 | under chapter 551, Florida Statutes, which is within 2 miles of |
| 9 | any neighboring municipality. The term "neighboring |
| 10 | municipality" means a municipality that does not have a pari- |
| 11 | mutuel facility licensed to provide slot machine gaming but has |
| 12 | one or more such facilities located within 2 miles of its |
| 13 | municipal borders. Revenue from the fees imposed by this section |
| 14 | must be used by the neighboring municipality for the purpose of |
| 15 | mitigating traffic and transportation problems that will be |
| 16 | caused by implementing section 23, Article X of the State |
| 17 | Constitution and that will occur as a direct result of slot |
| 18 | machine operation. Each pari-mutuel facility licensed to provide |
| 19 | slot machine gaming that is within 2 miles of a neighboring |
| 20 | municipality must remit the annual fee to the Department of |
| 21 | Business and Professional Regulation by February 1 of each year |
| 22 | based on the number of slot machines approved as of January 1. |
| 23 | The department shall distribute the funds to any neighboring |
| 24 | municipality requesting mitigation funding. A neighboring |
| 25 | municipality is not entitled to receive funds under this section |
| 26 | if that municipality currently has a financial agreement with |
| 27 | any such facility for a percentage of its benefits. If a |
| 28 | facility has an agreement with any neighboring municipality that |
| 29 | is within 2 miles of the facility and there are no other |
| 30 | municipalities within 2 miles of the facility, the facility is |
| 31 | exempt from paying the fee under this section. |
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| 35 | Remove line(s) 233 and insert: |
| 36 | Legislature; imposing an annual fee on slot machines at certain |
| 37 | facilities; providing for collection and distribution of the fee |
| 38 | to certain neighboring municipalities; providing for use of the |
| 39 | fees by the municipality; providing for an exemption from the |
| 40 | fee under certain circumstances; providing for nonseverability |
| 41 | of the act; |