Florida Senate - 2009                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. SB 478
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  Comm: RCS            .                                
                  03/10/2009           .                                
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       The Committee on Community Affairs (Wise) recommended the
       following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 12 and 13
    4  insert:
    5         Section 1. Paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of section
    6  538.03, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
    7         538.03 Definitions; applicability.—
    8         (1) As used in this part, the term:
    9         (f) “Secondhand goods” means personal property previously
   10  owned or used, which is not regulated metals property regulated
   11  under part II and which is purchased, consigned, or traded as
   12  used property. Such secondhand goods do not include office
   13  furniture, pianos, books, clothing, organs, coins, motor
   14  vehicles, costume jewelry, exercise equipment, and secondhand
   15  sports equipment that is not permanently labeled with a serial
   16  number. For purposes of this paragraph, “secondhand sports
   17  equipment” does not include golf clubs.
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   20         And the title is amended as follows:
   21         Delete everything before the enacting clause
   22  and insert:
   23  An act relating to secondhand dealers and secondary metals
   24  recyclers; amending s. 538.03, F.S.; excluding exercise
   25  equipment from the definition of secondhand goods; creating s.
   26  538.27, F.S.; prohibiting a political subdivision of the state
   27  or a municipality from adopting or enforcing any local
   28  ordinance, special law, or local regulation governing secondary
   29  metals recyclers which is more stringent or restrictive than the
   30  provisions of part II of ch. 538, F.S.; providing an effective
   31  date.