| 1 | Representatives Rehwinkel Vasilinda and Rogers offered the |
| 2 | following: |
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| 4 | Amendment (with title amendment) |
| 5 | Remove line 276 and insert: |
| 6 | (2) After the distributions under subsection (1), the next |
| 7 | $125 million from state income from offshore oil and natural gas |
| 8 | activities shall be equally distributed as follows: |
| 9 | (a) Up to $25 million annually shall be appropriated to |
| 10 | the Florida Energy and Climate Commission to be used for |
| 11 | enhancements to the Solar Energy System Incentives Program. |
| 12 | (b) Up to $25 million annually shall be appropriated to |
| 13 | the Board of Governors of the State University System to fund |
| 14 | research and development of technologies, systems, and processes |
| 15 | to solve the nation's dependency on foreign fossil fuels and |
| 16 | expand the use of alternative, biomass, and renewable |
| 17 | alternative fuels through a peer-reviewed grant process. |
| 18 | (c) Up to $25 million annually shall be appropriated to |
| 19 | the Internal Improvement Trust Fund for enhanced funding of the |
| 20 | management of public lands and state parks or the funding of |
| 21 | beach nourishment, or both, as determined by the Board of |
| 22 | Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund. |
| 23 | (d) Up to $25 million annually shall be appropriated to |
| 24 | fund environmental science programs in elementary and middle |
| 25 | schools in preparation for 10th grade and higher science testing |
| 26 | and for promoting science in high schools, to be spread |
| 27 | equitably between each school district. |
| 28 | (e) Up to $25 million annually shall be appropriated in |
| 29 | equal amounts to establish hands-on oil and natural gas industry |
| 30 | training academies in 25 counties using current state-of-the-art |
| 31 | industry-provided materials, technological training, and |
| 32 | instructors. Up to $15 million of the appropriation under this |
| 33 | paragraph shall be used to fund high school oil and natural gas |
| 34 | industry training academies. Up to $10 million of the |
| 35 | appropriation under this paragraph shall be used to fund |
| 36 | community college oil and natural gas industry training |
| 37 | academies, spread as evenly as possible geographically across |
| 38 | the state. |
| 39 | (3) Where federally recognized military range and activity |
| 40 | zones exist, each submitted proposal shall allow temporary |
| 41 | geological or drilling and equipment activities, or both, above |
| 42 | and below the surface of the water in order to establish pump |
| 43 | sites only, after which, no above-surface permanent placement of |
| 44 | equipment other than safety marker buoys is allowed. |
| 45 | (4) Each submitted proposal shall be presented with a |
| 46 | study that draws from existing state-of-the-art technology to |
| 47 | demonstrate that exploration for oil and gas is feasible in the |
| 48 | intended permit area. |
| 49 | (5) The Division of State Lands in the Department of |
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| 52 | T I T L E A M E N D M E N T |
| 53 | Between lines 22 and 23, insert: |
| 54 | providing for distribution of other state income from offshore |
| 55 | oil and natural gas activities; providing limitations on |
| 56 | activities in military range and activity zones; requiring each |
| 57 | proposal to be presented with a specified study; |